This creative project consists of an Introduction and one chapter from an untitled novel in progress.The Introduction includes a brief history of the artistic evolution of the novel and a discussion of problems which the novel imposes on the writer.The subject of the novel is the Donatelli family, an Italian immigrant family who lived in an eastern Pennsylvania city during the depression. Two essential conflicts are dramatized: that with the new culture and that between the differing values and goals of the first and second generations as represented by Luigi and his children, especially Vince, his younger son.