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The story of "Meh Lady" presents a rather utopian view of life in the South. Not only are the slaves happy there, but so too is a Yankee soldier, who marries Meh Lady. The characters view the events after the fall of Richmond as a collapse of a civilization. However, the end provides the hope that a new country could rise from the metaphorical ashes. What was it about Southern society that made it so infallible? It is telling, in my opinion, that the faithful slave narrative developed, clearly as an attempt to reconcile a vision of the South as a utopia, even with an institution like slavery at its core.- DRadtke | The story of "Meh Lady" presents a rather utopian view of life in the South. Not only are the slaves happy there, but so too is a Yankee soldier, who marries Meh Lady. The characters view the events after the fall of Richmond as a collapse of a civilization. However, the end provides the hope that a new country could rise from the metaphorical ashes. What was it about Southern society that made it so infallible? It is telling, in my opinion, that the faithful slave narrative developed, clearly as an attempt to reconcile a vision of the South as a utopia, even with an institution like slavery at its core.- DRadtke | ||
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| + | Albion Tourgee wanted people to remember "only the causes that underlay the struggle and the results that followed from it." But would most Americans have agreed with Tourgee about what the causes were? -GStan. | ||
