Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
several problems from the past which have not been solved in the present. The first one is the
fate of the blacks and the fate of immigrants. He presents stories of men and women who
typify the period in the book. 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