In the novel “Between Heaven and Earth,” which was written in the early period of his creative work, Saul Bellow gropes for a theme that will later become the main one for him - the problem of a free individual and his right to choose, the conflict between the individual and social nature of man. Book built in the form of a diary and tells the story of a young man who is awaiting conscription and is tormented by a feeling of his own uselessness.