The Big Rock Candy Mountain | Social Concerns
The Big Rock Candy Mountain focuses on the ending of the western frontier. Through the character of Bo Mason, the novel shows what happened to a society of people whose temperaments were suited to a wide-open frontier, but who had to adapt to the constraints of a settled society. In an interview Stegner said, "People like Bo Mason ... grow up without history, and they live without history, without any sense of history. They're trapped in the present." This reflects Stegner's view of the American and Canadian Wests; each is without history — their people have to make their own...
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