If you don’t know what an allegory is, you aren’t going to enjoy this book. Ellen is America, brought up in hardship and grinding poverty, but innocent about evil and unaware of her own magnificence, and too weak and self-delusional to protect herself from her supposed loved ones, who secretly despise her and whom she endlessly tries to placate, just like America and its enemies.
The ending isn’t happy, but she is responsible for it. Spanning the early post Civil War period to 1930, Caldwell’s story is a grim warning to Americans who are unaware of the threat of globalism and the concentration of supreme power in the hands of the few whose real enemy is a prosperous middle class.
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