Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
But most of the attention get the fictional characters. There's
three groups of them, three families. First of all a white family. WASP White Anglosaxon
South Protsetant. There's a little boy, the mother, the father, mother younger father and a
grandfather. It's sigunificant that the story begins with the white family. It symbolises what
America was in the beginning of the century. It was dominated by the WASP's. In such an
America everyone had to be patriotic. Father was a real patriote. Mother was a stereotypical
victorian women. Father has to make an appointment with her when he wants to have sex. But
when he leaves for the north to discover northpole, mother takes on the responisibility on
running the household. And she starts reading dangerous books, deals with business. The
father has sex with escimo women and when he returns he thinks his changed wife is his
punishment for what he's done. The younger brother of the mother is revolutionary, radical.
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