Life In The Iron Mills
Rebecca Harding Davis admirably wrote "Life in the Iron-Mills" to show the unrelenting fact that there is no such thing as social mobility and the only way for social stratification is placing one self outside the system.
Davis' introduction with landscape is more than just a picturesque walk for the reader to embark upon. The landscape of "Life in the Iron Mills" reveals the lack of any type of mobility, from the foggy sky to the sluggish river and everything in-between. Davis takes the readers on a tour through a "town of iron-works" and the first thing one notice is the evasive smoke that taints everything, especially the working poor class. Davis repetition of the word "smoke" gives a sense of how common this evasiveness in the iron mills "smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boatsÂ… Smoke everywhere!" (2548).
The scene that justly reflects every social status stratifying to elevate from their present status is in the meeting of the Mitchell, Kirby, Doctor......
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