William S. Burroughs was a member of the Beat Generation of writers whose main connection was their complete rejection of middle-class values and the lifestyle they represented. Burroughs' Naked Lunch is a purposefully obscene rant that serves as social satire against the hypocrisies and exploitation the author felt characterized American society during the 1960s. Skerl maintains that "Naked Lunch attacks without implying any positive standard as traditional satiric work does. The individual, anarchic freedom that lies behind the destructive satire exists in a vacuum"(46).
In the work Burroughs provides us with any number of shocking characters and scenes, from the depraved Dr. Benway giving ab
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