Rebecca Harding Davis novella called “Life in the Iron Mills” takes place in the old mill town of industrializing workers and how they lived in America culture in 1800’s. In this story, she tells her readers about gender inequality, upper and lower-class workforce, immigrants, racism, and horrible working conditions in the mill. Therefore, Davis wanted to explore these five genres call Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Sentimentalism, and Regionalism (Local Color).
Meanwhile, the narrator is setting the scene for the story talking about how gloomy the day is with thick air, fog, smoke and the smell of the mills from the window of Wolfes home. The Irishmen who smokes tobacco pipes to the huge chimneys, and the smoke from boats on the river
Meanwhile, the narrator is setting the scene for the story talking about how gloomy the day is with thick air, fog, smoke and the smell of the mills from the window of Wolfes home. The Irishmen who smokes tobacco pipes to the huge chimneys, and the smoke from boats on the river