In American literature, the term “realism” encompasses the period of time from 1865 to the turn of the century during which such famous authors as Mark Twain, Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, Henry James and others w

Twain is not only known for his humoristic short stories examining the human self, but he offend includes his underlying and even sometime blatant attacks on political hypocrisy and oppression of the middle-class individual. In Mark Twain’s “Corn-Pone Opinions”, Twain relentlessly attacks the political hierarchy declaring that the opinions of politicians are futile. Through the protagonists’ credibility and honesty as a young adolescent black preacher Twain sets the stage to explain that “we get our notions and habits and opinions from outside influences, we do not have study them out”. He continues to degrade this “Public Opinion” by an outright attack on the nations politicians asserting that

Through Twain’s juvenalien satire and understated litotes he conveys his overlying motif that “Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval.”

rote fiction devoted to accurate representation and an exploration of American lives. As the United States grew rapidly after the Civil War, as did the increasing of the economy and the rate of literacy, the rapid growth in indus

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