That Web of Symbols in Zamyatin's We

Pitcher, Edward W. R. "That Web of Symbols in Zamyatin's We." Extrapolation 22.3 (Fall 1981): 252-61.

Concludes that the essential choice offered in We "is not between the Natural World and the One State, the Garden and the City," but between opting—wrongly—for "one or the other . . . of the polarized positions in the novel" and retaining "the wisdom . . . to live with . . . the ambiguous and the irrational" (260). EWRP notes that his conclusions oppose those of most critics, esp. A. Aldridge in "Myths of Origin and Destiny" (q.v., this Category).