When communities face a great many social and economic obstacles to achieving their conception of the American Dream, there is a natural inertia or resistance when members of this social setting actually seek to improve their particular standing. They are looked at with a dose of skepticism and misgiving combined with a certain level of envy and resentment. Mrs. Johnson might be representative or symbolic of this. Her visit and query into the Younger family's prospective move does not seem motivated by a genuine sense of wanting...
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