i love modernism even though i don't give a shit right now about it. all i want is some real food, a nap and gone with the wind, an episode of joan and melissa, and to write some prose.
but i have three hours to cram. readysetgo!
modernism: going against the grain and the cultural conservatism and tendencies of that nature. adopted more realistic perspectives---adopted realism.
rejecting tradition! that's what i like to hear.
atheistic notions embedded as well...hmmm.
moved beyond obsolete tendencies and traditional forms of art and delved more into avant garde and unconventional executions.
experimental tendencies very big too.
defying social norms!
industrialization huge theme given that this is evidently accentuated in sister carrie, etc.
naturalism: the world is a mechanical entity, and we are just succumbing to it, like in sister carrie.
nothing exists beyond the natural world.
naturalism=related to realism.
it's inevitable that you will fall prey to social norms and your environment.
what is within you and what's outside of you determine your character and what you will be molded into.
chestnutt: marrow of tradition
major cateret and olivia have baby, dodie
olivia has half black sister janet she just found out about, is outraged
seeing janet makes her have her baby early WTF
two men going after clara (olivias neice!)
wealthy, good looking tom is going after her
but he's a dick
and lee, who works at the paper with the major is a lot better. plain looking but very nice and hardworking, is an editor.
tom gambles and drinks too much, a lowlife.
janet's husband, dr. miller is called by cateret's dr. because dodie chokes on a rattle
the major wont let him in cuz hes janet's husband, and black
cateret/captain mcbane/general belmont are plotting to exterminate black population.
aunt ochiltree: horrible woman, tom eventually kills her for her money since she's a hermit cuz he has to pay off gambling debt
josh greene: mcbane killed his dad, wants revenge. he does kill the bastard at the end, right as he's dying paradoxically when a riot breaks out.
sandy: tom's best friend and black servant. tom frames him though for the murder he committed. nearly lynched, yet soon everyone figures out that it's tom who was the killer.
gooperhead grapevine: intricateass story, ugh.
northern man and woman move to south...north/south carolina area to help with woman's illness. the land is good for raising grapes which is what the man wants to do. then he realizes the grapes have gone wild and someones been eating them...aka uncle julius has been eating them. then he meets crazy julius who tells him not to buy the land cuz the land is "cursed" which is bullshit.
mcadoo owned the grape land and made money for wine. he had aunt peggy, whose a witch cast a spell on the grapes. rumor: people who ate the grapes DIED.
mcadoo's slaves died cuz they kept eating grapes, so he got new slaves. henry the new slave tried grapes though nonetheless. aunt peggy gave him a potion to drink and told him to perform some movement---strange ones to kill the curse before it killed him.
then his hair grew like the vines. whatever grapes did, he did.
henry eventually died.
northern man rebuffs uncle julius bogus story and buys the land and makes a ton of cash money. apparently uncle julius was selling wine and made cash himself.
northern man got ripped off by julius.
passing of grandison:
dick: stupid rich privileged boy son of plantation owner
charity: dick is trying to get her to marry him
grandison: tricks white old master by saying slavery is a blessing and says he should be punished if he doesnt want slavery
basically white people are stupid and slaves can outsmart them
stephen crane stories:
maggie girl of the streets---
poor maggie becomes a hooker
jimmie gets in a street fight, pete rescues him
jimmies dad: abusive
jimmie: maggies brother
maggie older sister and tommie is younger
mary: abusive, drunken mother of the three children
dad: a drunk too
dad and tommie die
jimmie turns very bad gets into a lot of trouble
joins a gang
maggie: pure and innocent, doesn't fall prey to the corruption around her, in spite of poverty-stricken life
maggie: hopeful, vulnerable, naive, beautiful
pete: sleazeball bartender who courts maggie
she falls for his false sense of worldliness and swagger and bravado
she sees promise in him
mary verbally abuses maggie
maggie goes to pete, then jimmie is incensed at pete because he ruined maggie and took advantage of her
then pete and jimmie fight
maggie goes to leave with pete
jimmie and mary think maggie has failed as a human being and talk shit about her basically
she becomes scandalous and notorious
maggie and pete go to bar and meet nellie PRO GOLD DIGGER convinces pete to leave maggie
family wont let maggie back home
jimmie and mom: HUGE HYPOCRITICAL PIGS!!!!!
maggie becomes a prostitute
pete passes out in bar drunk and nellie leaves him
jimmie tells mary that maggie had died
mom says she'll forgive maggie PSH!
the open boat:
correspondent: condescending observer
captain: injured, saddened b/c lost ship
cook: fat, comical relief, content
billie: strong, DIES
see lighthouse amid their bickering and rowing
a sign of hope
sees a shark
swim for shore, billie swims for shore
three of the four reach shore safely
billie dies b/c swam alone
rescuers find them all including dead billie
bride comes to the yellow sky:
bride marries potter, town sheriff
misperceptions of oneself and the world around you as well as the people around you
human's warped understanding of the world
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