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Bunt is named for an elder brother who died in infancy, and both Betty and Bunt seem to feel that he is only a stand-in for his predecessor.
As opposed to the commonly cited figure of total book sales, this number is a reasonable stand-in for the question of how many Americans are reading nonpulp new novels.
Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.
Is it Madden who's attacking Varga's Hungarian maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), or is Madden a stand-in for Harry?
Heep is, however, a fine stand-in for the House Majority Whip, Tom DeLay of Texas.