Of Iron And Men
Of Iron and Men: The Quest for Masculinity in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in The Iron Mills
What is a Man?
“A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings” (Davis 11). This is how the short story Life in the Iron Mills begins. The author, Rebecca Harding Davis, sets the scene of an environment that is harsh, depressing and dark. What kind of character would live in such a dismal place? One would expect it to be a person of both mental and physical toughness, someone strong and bold, with a very course personality. Perhaps a male character that is a real man’s man.
This sets the stage for the irony of the main character Hugh Wolfe. He is nothing like the previously mentioned manly type character. He is described in less than manly ways, even to the point of being called one of the “girl-men.” It is my assertion that......
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