A. Phaniraja Kumar
CHAPTER – II
CABBAGES AND KINGS
I. Cabbages and Kings
Cabbages and Kings appeared in 1904 and included nineteen stories. Although most of these stories had already been published, O. Henry did add a few peers to realize his conception of the book as a loosely-connected novel. Indeed, one needs to read all nineteen of the stories to discover what finally happens to the characters introduced in the first story. The plot of the “novel” details the adventures and misadventures of various Latin American dictators and patriots and American consuls and outcasts. The unifying element of the work is setting more than character. After the publication of Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry infrequently but successfully returned to his Latin-American …show more content…
Formulators of national policy - Mahan, Lodge, The odore Roosevelt, among others -believed strongly in “the efficacy of foreign remedies for domestic afflictions.”7 Given the economic problems of depression and unemployment and the social problems of the closing of the frontier and urban crowding, the war provided a psychic outlet for American frustrations. Jackson Lears has written that, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, the rise of the martial spirit demonstrated the belief that “war promised both social and personal regeneration a regeneration which the nation sorely needed.”8
REFERENCES
1. Gerald F. Linderman, The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish – American War. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1974, P.1.
2. Thomas C. Cochran, And William Miller. The Age of Enterprise: A social History of Industrial America New York: Macm lan Company, 1942. P. 182.
3. Ernest R.May, Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1961.P.34
4. Federico G. Gil, Latin American – United States Relations. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. P.67.
5. Ernest R.May,.P.32.
6. Gerald F. Linderman, The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish – American War. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1974,
CHAPTER – II
CABBAGES AND KINGS
I. Cabbages and Kings
Cabbages and Kings appeared in 1904 and included nineteen stories. Although most of these stories had already been published, O. Henry did add a few peers to realize his conception of the book as a loosely-connected novel. Indeed, one needs to read all nineteen of the stories to discover what finally happens to the characters introduced in the first story. The plot of the “novel” details the adventures and misadventures of various Latin American dictators and patriots and American consuls and outcasts. The unifying element of the work is setting more than character. After the publication of Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry infrequently but successfully returned to his Latin-American …show more content…
Formulators of national policy - Mahan, Lodge, The odore Roosevelt, among others -believed strongly in “the efficacy of foreign remedies for domestic afflictions.”7 Given the economic problems of depression and unemployment and the social problems of the closing of the frontier and urban crowding, the war provided a psychic outlet for American frustrations. Jackson Lears has written that, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, the rise of the martial spirit demonstrated the belief that “war promised both social and personal regeneration a regeneration which the nation sorely needed.”8
REFERENCES
1. Gerald F. Linderman, The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish – American War. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1974, P.1.
2. Thomas C. Cochran, And William Miller. The Age of Enterprise: A social History of Industrial America New York: Macm lan Company, 1942. P. 182.
3. Ernest R.May, Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1961.P.34
4. Federico G. Gil, Latin American – United States Relations. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. P.67.
5. Ernest R.May,.P.32.
6. Gerald F. Linderman, The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish – American War. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1974,