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. Writing with an emphasis on portraying life as it was really lived, usually focusing on middle or
working class characters.
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A literary movement prominent around 1900.
Writers also had a Reformist intent - many ordinary, everyday people in America were on the losing
side of corruption....they wanted improved living conditions for women, immigrants, and anyone who
had to work in the unsafe conditions of America's booming factories.
Why was the time period following the Civil War often
called the "Gilded Age"?
On the outside, the country seemed "gilded" because the Industrial Revolution was a prosperous
time.
On the outside, the country seemed prosperous, or "gilded," but really it was a very uneasy time.
Things in the country seemed uneasy and turbulent, but really it was a very prosperous time.



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The Gilded Age was a time of prosperity masking corruption in American history. Realism was a literary movement focusing on portraying ordinary life realistically.


Explanation:

The Gilded Age was a period in American history marked by a thin veneer of prosperity masking political and economic corruption.

A prominent literary movement around 1900 known as Realism emphasized portraying ordinary life realistically, focusing on middle or working-class characters.

Writers like Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James used the Realistic method to create characters and plots based on average people experiencing everyday struggles.


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