Difficult Times During the Modern Era
The Modern Era was a time of the revolutionary prosperity for most people in the 1920s. Throughout the novels this time period created very wealthy, along with ruthless people, that often had low standards. During the early 1930s the stock market crashed causing the Great Depression, along with the severe drought. Workers throughout the times were getting low wages and slowly relied on only family. Because of these description and events that occurred, Modern Era writers such as; William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, and Porter along with many more could depict the difficult times in the literature that they wrote.
The first example of how authors show a difficult family life is by the poem “The …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald's short story that show the low standards of the wealthy is “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” At the beginning of the book Bernice starts off as an outcast, who just wants to fit in with her cousin. Soon after taking some advice from her cousin Bernice becomes part of the wealthy/popular group. Her cousin, Marjorie, gets jealous and talks Bernice in to bobbing her hair. After Bernice bobs her hair all of her "friends" leave and she is back to being an outcast. Bernice soon becomes upset because of the quick and short ending to her popularity all because of her low morals of her wealthy cousin. Furthermore, F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, "Winter Dreams", the character of Judy has always been rich with very low morels. As a child, Judy “became involved in a heated conversation, which was concluded by Miss Jones taking one of the clubs and hitting it on the ground with violence" (941,942). When Judy became older, her morels were still low as she was very interested in being with the wealthy men. Dexter, who wasn't such a wealthy man, wanted a lifestyle similar to being wealthy, but he passes up going to the better university, and wants to go to the "older, more beautiful, famous university in the East" …show more content…
In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor, a mother and a daughter were living on a farm when a man named Mr. Shiftlet comes. The two are so poor the mother says “If you come out here to work,but I can't pay.” Mr. Shiftlet stays to work and within a week “He had patched the front and back steps, built a hog pen, restored a fence and taught Lucynell… to say the word bird” (1037, 1038). In addition to "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", the poem “Out Out” by Robert Frost also shows similarities in hard working life on a farm. "Out Out" is about a young boy who is doing very hard work.Later in the poem, the boys sister calls for supper and the boy accidentally cuts his hand off as he is working. The boy goes to the hospital, he dies soon after his arrival and the doctors, “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”
The Modern Era was a time of the revolutionary prosperity for most people in the 1920s. Throughout the novels this time period created very wealthy, along with ruthless people, that often had low standards. During the early 1930s the stock market crashed causing the Great Depression, along with the severe drought. Workers throughout the times were getting low wages and slowly relied on only family. Because of these description and events that occurred, Modern Era writers such as; William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, and Porter along with many more could depict the difficult times in the literature that they wrote.
The first example of how authors show a difficult family life is by the poem “The …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald's short story that show the low standards of the wealthy is “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” At the beginning of the book Bernice starts off as an outcast, who just wants to fit in with her cousin. Soon after taking some advice from her cousin Bernice becomes part of the wealthy/popular group. Her cousin, Marjorie, gets jealous and talks Bernice in to bobbing her hair. After Bernice bobs her hair all of her "friends" leave and she is back to being an outcast. Bernice soon becomes upset because of the quick and short ending to her popularity all because of her low morals of her wealthy cousin. Furthermore, F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, "Winter Dreams", the character of Judy has always been rich with very low morels. As a child, Judy “became involved in a heated conversation, which was concluded by Miss Jones taking one of the clubs and hitting it on the ground with violence" (941,942). When Judy became older, her morels were still low as she was very interested in being with the wealthy men. Dexter, who wasn't such a wealthy man, wanted a lifestyle similar to being wealthy, but he passes up going to the better university, and wants to go to the "older, more beautiful, famous university in the East" …show more content…
In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor, a mother and a daughter were living on a farm when a man named Mr. Shiftlet comes. The two are so poor the mother says “If you come out here to work,but I can't pay.” Mr. Shiftlet stays to work and within a week “He had patched the front and back steps, built a hog pen, restored a fence and taught Lucynell… to say the word bird” (1037, 1038). In addition to "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", the poem “Out Out” by Robert Frost also shows similarities in hard working life on a farm. "Out Out" is about a young boy who is doing very hard work.Later in the poem, the boys sister calls for supper and the boy accidentally cuts his hand off as he is working. The boy goes to the hospital, he dies soon after his arrival and the doctors, “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”