The Day of the Locust by Nathaneal West greatly reminds me of the hit song Hotel California by the Eagles. Firstly, there are many surface level connections. For example, both the Day of the Locust and Hotel California take place in California. The mysterious girl in the song Hotel California also reminds me a lot of Faye from the Day of the Locust. There is a line in Hotel California that goes “She got plenty of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends”. This reminds me of Faye because she is “friends” with Tod, Homer, Earle and the Mexican whom she all calls friends but they want more than friendship. On a deeper level, both the song and novel bring forth the idea of hopelessness and being trapped. In the novel, it is stated that “Tod knew very little about them except that they had come to California to die (60). Similarly, in Hotel California there is a line that states “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!”. Both of these lines have an eerie tone and display of people having no control of the world around them.
Listen Here to Hotel California by the Eagles:
Great American Novels 2020 
This is a really interesting comparison.
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This is a super interesting connection that I would have never have thought about myself, but reading your post I definitely see the similarities!
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Oooo very interesting
I never heard of that kind of comparison before!
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