What Was the MOST Common Theme of Literature During the Gilded

question 67

Multiple Choice

What was the MOST common theme of literature during the Gilded Age, such as William Dean Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth?

• A) the spectacular rather than the everyday
• B) the worship of money
• C) the sentimentality of America
• D) a glorified view of the necessity of war
• E) the divinity found in nature

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