26 December 2022 10:34

The protagonist is a young man called Simon Morley, or

Si. He’s a sketch artist who makes illustrations for an
advertising company in 1970s Manhattan. Si is lonely and
struggling to create the life he had always imagined. His
ambitions have not materialized, and he’s always looking
for new opportunities.

This character takes an emotional journey, replacing an

empty, emotionless life with new beliefs on humanity and
romantic relationships.
Si is the novel's central character, an attractive but
somewhat aimless young man who seems to be in his
late twenties or early-to-mid thirties. His outlook on life
at the beginning of the novel is summed up in the first of
the "Quotes" listed in this analysis - he sees his existence
as empty, pointless, and devoid of both feeling and
meaning. That being said, he does exhibit the admirable
trait of compassion as shown through several
circumstances in the novel. These include his striving to
solve the mystery troubling his girlfriend, his desire that
the woman he loves in the past not be condemned to a
life of suffering, and his unexpected rescue of the girl
trapped in the fire. For the most part, though, he feels
emptiness at the heart of his life, an emptiness that gets
filled as the result of his experiences...
If you could travel back in time, where would you go?
Why? In Time and Again, Jack Finney tells the fictional
story of Simon Morley, Si, an artist who is recruited by
the government to help with a time traveling experiment.
Let's summarize and analyze this story.