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American Humor
White, Kenneth | July 6, 1932 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Tobacco Road," by Erskine Caldwell. Caldwell's method is completely identified with the casual happenings to his characters, who seem thereby to acquire some of the comic properties intrinsic in chickens. The notion has gone about that the deliquescent characters their squalor, their utter placidity, make Caldwell's writing "primitive"; his sentence structure has made possible the belief that his work is naive. By the simple construction of his sentences, by the fact that he deals usually with isolated rural people who come into contact with other ways of American life.

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BOOKS; TOBACCO Road (Book); CHARACTERS & characteristics; LITERATURE; COMEDY; AUTHORS
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