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Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:28:06 2010 No.531127 [Reply] [Original]

Why are all the best novels about really rich or really poor people?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:30:06 2010 No.531130 Because the middle class is boring? I don't agree with your premise anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:30:06 2010 No.531134 Madame Bovary?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:33:06 2010 No.531142 do something about it then...write about some middle class people

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:34:06 2010 No.531148 >considers the novel I'm currently reading >Humbert Humbert not particularly poor, nor is he wealthy >what is this

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:34:06 2010 No.531149 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:35:06 2010 No.531151 >>531142 All writers now a days are doing that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 8 12:38:06 2010 No.531159 Because a real middle class is still a fairly recent thing.