Depiction of Dos Passos in American Society

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Theodore Dresier and Richard Wright, two American social novels, diverged more and more in the twentieth century. New social and political perspectives were represented in their work. Some of their stories featured small business owners as heroes or villains who faced all kinds of social and political pressures, while others featured employees of large corporations who were nominally free, but who were nonetheless affected by their work environment and how they were perceived by others. In this way, Dos Passos' books provided the most comprehensive examination and recording of the change. In practically all of his texts, the desire for individual independence serves as a recurring subject. As a young man, Dos Passos advocated for the rights of the disenfranchised artists of society. After that, he got interested in the pursuit for the greatest possible freedom for everybody. When the Sacco-Vanzetti case brought him out of his solitary confinement, he was thrust into the public eye. In U.S.A. and other novels, Dos Passos campaigned for workers' liberation from tyranny by exposing management's abuses of labour and the wider class conflict.

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