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Introduction
Plot
Historical Context
Style
Character
Theme
Criticism
Commentary
Introduction
Plot
Historical Context
Style
Character
Theme
Criticism
Commentary
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Themes
The American Dream
For most people, the American Dream is the belief that if one works hard and long enough, one will achieve financial and emotional security. With his accident, however, Leroy is confronted with the truth: he lives in a rented home, he has no child, and his wife has lost interest in him. He attempts to resurrect his idea of the American Dream by making plans to build a log cabin. However, even this dream evaporates as his wife tells him that she wants to leave him. Norma Jean also buys into the American Dream but lives an empty life. She works at a drug store and is confronted with cosmetics and beauty magazines promising to change her life. She lifts weights and writes compositions. She cooks exotic food and plays the organ. She makes lists of things Leroy can do. In spite of her dreams and hard work, however, she too finds the American Dream elusive.
Change and Transformation
In “Shiloh,” Leroy and Norma Jean are victims of rapid social change. Subdivisions and shopping malls are quickly changing their formerly rural Kentucky environment. Leroy “cruises the new subdivisions, feeling like a criminal rehearsing for a robbery. . . . All the houses look grand and complicated. They depress him.” Leroy resists change, looking backward to an earlier time. He wants to build a log cabin — a traditional dwelling. Furthermore, he wants to start his marriage over again. “You and me could start all over again,” he tells Norma Jean. “Right back at the beginning.” Norma Jean, however, has no desire to go back to the beginning. She attempts to transform herself in the face of change. Her weightlifting, adult education classes, and exotic cooking are symptomatic of her desire for transformation. She dismisses Leroy’s notion of a log cabin; the subdivisions are more to her liking. Leroy embraces tradition, but Norma Jean rejects it.
The American Dream
For most people, the American Dream is the belief that if one works hard and long enough, one will achieve financial and emotional security. With his accident, however, Leroy is confronted with the truth: he lives in a rented home, he has no child, and his wife has lost interest in him. He attempts to resurrect his idea of the American Dream by making plans to build a log cabin. However, even this dream evaporates as his wife tells him that she wants to leave him. Norma Jean also buys into the American Dream but lives an empty life. She works at a drug store and is confronted with cosmetics and beauty magazines promising to change her life. She lifts weights and writes compositions. She cooks exotic food and plays the organ. She makes lists of things Leroy can do. In spite of her dreams and hard work, however, she too finds the American Dream elusive.
Change and Transformation
In “Shiloh,” Leroy and Norma Jean are victims of rapid social change. Subdivisions and shopping malls are quickly changing their formerly rural Kentucky environment. Leroy “cruises the new subdivisions, feeling like a criminal rehearsing for a robbery. . . . All the houses look grand and complicated. They depress him.” Leroy resists change, looking backward to an earlier time. He wants to build a log cabin — a traditional dwelling. Furthermore, he wants to start his marriage over again. “You and me could start all over again,” he tells Norma Jean. “Right back at the beginning.” Norma Jean, however, has no desire to go back to the beginning. She attempts to transform herself in the face of change. Her weightlifting, adult education classes, and exotic cooking are symptomatic of her desire for transformation. She dismisses Leroy’s notion of a log cabin; the subdivisions are more to her liking. Leroy embraces tradition, but Norma Jean rejects it.
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- 등록일2010.09.07
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