Walker Alexander Percy, born in 1916 in Alabama, was a typical southern writer whose novels always had an undertone of the
social
problems. The paper shows how Walker's novels "The Moviegoer" and the "Lancelot", both reflect the author's concern for the degenerated condition of society. Both these novels discuss the problems that man has to confront under the prevailing social structure, marked by a sheer lack of morality. The paper shows that the main context of the novels seems to be the
imbalance either created by the indifferent and erratic behavior of the society, as is the case in "Lancelot" or the imbalance in the perception of the Protagonist as in "The Moviegoer". The essential theme of both these novels revolves around the discussion of the effects of this imbalance upon the protagonists (Binx and Lancelot) and their struggle with it. The paper analyzes the plots of the two novels and then looks at the common themes as well as the differences in them.