The Magnificent Ambersons | Techniques
The primary technique used by Tarkington in The Magnificent Ambersons is a literary realism in which the closely observed details of the surfaces of events, manners, and families (even if some of his rendered observations are superficial) reveal the forces at work changing society from within. This technique is used extensively in Chapter 1 when the omniscient narrator quickly sets the social habits and fashions of the period just after Major Amberson has made his great fortune. Not only does this ease the reader into the milieu of the 1870s Midwest, but it creates a tone of quiet...
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