The Bridges of Madison County | Social Concerns
The Bridges of Madison County is slight enough as a novel and compressed enough in plot that there is very little overt social commentary in it. Robert Kincaid represents a dying breed of quintessential male — he describes himself as the "last cowboy" — who resists socialization into the norms of the modern world. He is a wanderer, a lone seeker after "truth" and meaning in life which he discourses on in many mystical and filmy soliloquies, discourses which, incidentally, provoked much of the novel's negative criticism. Kincaid represents a contemporary version of the...
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