The Home Front
The Home Front
Wartime America underwent rapid transformation; men, women, and children saw their social roles redefined; and economic and racial divisions grew deeper and sharper edged. Theater was the perfect medium to represent home-front tensions and anxieties as they were manifested on the local level: the congenital civilian thrust into the military life as in Strip for Action and This Is the Army; the family pressured by rapid and dynamic social transformations as in Three's a Family, A New Life, and Men to the Sea; couples pressured by the carpe-diem spirit of the wartime romance as in On the Town and Those Endearing Young Charms; adolescents, often tempted into juvenile delinquency with the freedom of looser rules and mores as in Janie and Pick-Up Girl; men and women balancing patriotism and selfishness, as in The Voice of the Turtle and the shocking Tomorrow the World.
Keywords: Home Front, Patriotism, This is the Army, The American Way, On the Town, Juvenile delinquency, Carpe diem romance, Tomorrow the World
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