Big Boy Leaves home and Long black song
Give a literary interpretation.
For these two stories, reflect on what theme or themes you find significant or interesting and use a few short quotes from each story to support and explore your response. These stories are in some ways more complex in the sense that they come from a very specific time period (they were written and published in the 1930s) and specific type of fiction, which is "naturalism."
This part is just an FYI
"Naturalism was a literary movement or tendency from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. It was a mainly unorganized Literary movement that sought to depict believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment.
