 Secondly, the specific image of the persecuted human fleeing from his tormentors is an all too familiar archetype of pogroms and persecutions.This image would later figure as a key symbol in West's final novel "The Day of the Locust".The general notion of a society looking for a scapegoat, and finding one in the form of a hapless fool, would echo in both "Miss Lonelyhearts" and "A Cool Million".