Throughout the novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow there were major cultural and social changes. The cutural changes were from the creations of unions to the moving picture industry to the creation of a middle class. The development of unions was moving the lower class of society up into an undevoped middle class and moving some of the rich down to this new middle class. Some of the social changes ranged from changes in women's sexual prefrances to the revolution of black rights. The two characters that I belive followed these changes the most were Tateh and Younger Brother.
Tateh started out as a poor man who who painted fifteen cent sillouettes on a New York street corner. Until one day Evelyn Nesbit was driving by and saw how beautiful Tateh's young daughter was. Evelyn bought many sillouettes from Tateh so he to treat the young girl well. He went to a meeting with Evelyn and realized that she was a rich woman who enjoyed the company of men. This put money in Evelyn's pocket since she used her beauty to succeed in life. After shunning his wife away for sleeping with her boss, he shunned Eve
The next character that went under a lot of change was the New Rochle family's younger brother. He was a shy man who just went to work ad came home. Until one day when he became with this beautiful rich woman, Evelyn Nesbit. He flowed he around almost to protect her, and one day she noticed him. A relationshp spured from that. This was a sexual relationship that showed one of the many social changes that was going on at the time. The change in womans sexual preferances from fat rich men to skinny vibrant young men. Their romance lasted a while but devoped into nothing but heartbreak for younger brother. He needed to find his idtity so he went on long walks till one day it dawned on him to join Coalhouse Walker's gang. He presented it to Coalhose and informed him that he could make bombs. This got him in and he was wth Coal house till he was told to leave before Coalhouse's death. The Younger brother takes his knowlage of explosives and helps other rebel groups until his death. This was his calling, his vision of life, his identity.
Tateh ended up in this small mill in Massachusites worki
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