Anna Hartnell makes the salient point that “the attitude with which Jack Levy looks at the town of New Prospect is one of distaste, which contrasts sharply with that of Henry Perowne as he surveys his beloved London from his Charlotte Street bedroom window in McEwan's Saturday” (“Violence and the Faithful,” 486). The difference is, crucially, one of class: Perowne's privileged position is reflected in his heightened ability to survey the city; Levy and his wife are down among the flotsam and jetsam of urban life.

XREF: Links McEwan's Saturday with the novel featuring Jack Levy, drawing a class-based comparison of narrative perspective.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 627