Also, the first two novels in the series are largely tautly written affairs that come in around the 300-page mark and both comprise a compelling voyage through the inner dialogue of their unnamed narrator. On the other hand, The Farewell Symphony is a more epic 500 pages in which White apparently aims at and successfully accomplishes the great novel. Another distinguishing characteristic that sets The Farewell Symphony apart from its predecessors is the former were largely concerned with struggle, whereas in the third volume White/the narrator encounters gradually increasing professional success and is thus initiated into the American literary elite in which he well truly earns his place, between the continued, at times leviathan struggles he encounters.