Bernice Bobs Her Hair Analysis
During the 1920s, lots of rich people could enjoy their lives and in the 1930s, the war affected people´s lives and made them terribly tough. When the people´s lives changed, the literature also changed and reflected the people´s everyday lives with all their problems and joys.
Many people were rich and enjoyed their lives without hard work during the 1920s. However, that didn´t mean, that the people were happy. Authors liked to put these people´s lives into poems and short stories. For instance, in Edwin Arlington Robinson´s poem “Richard Cory”, Cory “was richer than a king” and everybody wanted to be like him. But Cory wasn´t happy and “Went home and put a bullet through his head”. Also F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” about rich people: Bernice and her friends …show more content…
don´t even have to work and spent their time with going to dances and picnicking. The only things they worry about is their haircuts and how to flirt.
After the war, times got tough and people´s lives turned into lives full of work.
The whole family had to work hard and nothing could keep them away from working. For example, in “Lucinda Matlock” by Edgar Lee Masters, Davis´s wife gave birth to twelve children “eight of whom we lost” and even in her older age she kept doing all the work around the house. Besides Masters, also Robert Frost writes about the tough Twenties. In his poem “Out, Out-“ the little boy and his sister have to work outside together. During “doing a man´s work , though a child at hear” the boy accidently died, but the family, “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”.
Besides the tough post war timers, segregation made the life even harder for black people. They had to live with racism and often without education. For example, Eudora Welty uses racism as one of the themes in her short story “A Worn Path”. The protagonist Phoenix, a old black woman, gets treated with less respect from all the people that cross her way. In the poem “I, too” by Langston Hughes, the black speaker gets send “to eat in the kitchen – When company comes”. But he has hope to be equal with white people
soon.
In conclusion, authors liked to use nowadays life affected by economy, war, and racism. So the authors reflected exactly the time with people´s lives in their work.
Many people were rich and enjoyed their lives without hard work during the 1920s. However, that didn´t mean, that the people were happy. Authors liked to put these people´s lives into poems and short stories. For instance, in Edwin Arlington Robinson´s poem “Richard Cory”, Cory “was richer than a king” and everybody wanted to be like him. But Cory wasn´t happy and “Went home and put a bullet through his head”. Also F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” about rich people: Bernice and her friends …show more content…
don´t even have to work and spent their time with going to dances and picnicking. The only things they worry about is their haircuts and how to flirt.
After the war, times got tough and people´s lives turned into lives full of work.
The whole family had to work hard and nothing could keep them away from working. For example, in “Lucinda Matlock” by Edgar Lee Masters, Davis´s wife gave birth to twelve children “eight of whom we lost” and even in her older age she kept doing all the work around the house. Besides Masters, also Robert Frost writes about the tough Twenties. In his poem “Out, Out-“ the little boy and his sister have to work outside together. During “doing a man´s work , though a child at hear” the boy accidently died, but the family, “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”.
Besides the tough post war timers, segregation made the life even harder for black people. They had to live with racism and often without education. For example, Eudora Welty uses racism as one of the themes in her short story “A Worn Path”. The protagonist Phoenix, a old black woman, gets treated with less respect from all the people that cross her way. In the poem “I, too” by Langston Hughes, the black speaker gets send “to eat in the kitchen – When company comes”. But he has hope to be equal with white people
soon.
In conclusion, authors liked to use nowadays life affected by economy, war, and racism. So the authors reflected exactly the time with people´s lives in their work.