Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America | Scott Sherman
In the following essay, Sherman analyzes Ehrenreich's complex and often contradictory attitude toward the people she writes about.
Scott Sherman
In the following essay, Sherman analyzes Ehrenreich's complex and often contradictory attitude toward the people she writes about.
A striking feature of immersion narratives like London's People of the Abyss and Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier is the extent to which compassion and sympathy co-exist uneasily with revulsion and disapproval. Jack London possessed a deep empathy for the slum dwellers of turn-of-the-century England, but he still allowed himself to describe them as "stupid and heavy, without imagination." Orwell,...
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