@article{oai:u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp:02004034,
 author = {仲地, 弘善 and Nakachi, Kozen},
 issue = {32},
 journal = {琉球大学語学文学論集},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {According to Steinbeck, "there are four levels of statement" in his fiction and very few will arrive at "the fourth level" And, thanks to the　accumulation of scholarly works on steinbeck and his fiction, we are now in a position to point out that "the fourth level" is related to Steinbeck's concept of "non-teleological thinking" and "breaking through," the mechanism of which creates "philosophical conclusions arrived at, not through statement but only through structure." What I am trying to do, in this paper, is to explain how Steinbeck's concept of "non-teleological thinking" and "breaking through" concept functions in The Wayward Bus. A close analysis of The Wayward Bus reveals that the main character, Juan Chicoy, plays two roles in the novel, that is, as an individual who is going to "break through" to an understanding of "a deep thing," his whole self, and as "the non-teleological deity" whose existence discloses the ugly reality of the passengers in his bus. By bringing the bus into the mire in the old road and leaving each of the passengers to face his or her own problem, Juan Chicoy gets the opportunity to break through to an understanding of his own reality and makes the passengers, including the readers, face theirs, too. That is, the mechanism of Steinbeck's concept of "non-teleological thinking" and "breaking through" is deeply imbedded in the structure of The Wayward Bus., 紀要論文},
 pages = {153--173},
 title = {『気まぐれパス』：幻想と現実},
 year = {1987}
}