What was missing in the scene of the rich woman in the department store was a "close-up" shot of her shop-lifting. ... We have to keep in mind that this was written in the 18th century, so by the time Alger wrote Ragged Dick in the mid-19th century the U.S. had already become a different society. During the mid-19th century society was dealing with poverty. ...

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