... of frugal living because they are too poor to pursue or afford a luxuriant one. An important theme that would run throughout the novel to show how dehumanizing and depersonalizing social relationships became in the consumer society that Chicago was transformed into, is first evident on the fact that Minnie and Hanson invited Carrie to stay at their house not out of a desire for ... and performance, Julia in suing Hurstwood for his properties also expressed a theme on the importance of money and property in a consumer society and how it continually drives the desire and appetite of the c...

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... every fourth line is orange, seem to have obvious references to nature, but, by the late 1960s, such referential touches had disappeared. The works she completed in the last half of the decade were austere and monochromatic, painted mainly in shades of gray and brown and in acrylics rather than oils. The slight changes in the tonalities of a canvas were, in fact, produced by changes in ... Philadelphia, where a number of her manuscripts are stored. In addition to writing and lecturing, in 1976 Miss Martin made a full-length motion picture, Gabriel, about a little boy's day of freedom and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate