In the short story, "The Near and the Far," modernism rears its head on more than one occasion. My interpretation of the story is perhaps a little askew of most, but I chose to see the engineer as the American people and the woman with her perfect house the "American Dream." The modernists represented a culture of writers disillusioned with traditional American values and dreams. The engineer spent his prime (equivalent to the youth of the generation that came of age dur
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