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The Standard of Living Dorothy Parker

The Standard of Living Dorothy Parker. Dorothy Parker. Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an America n poet , short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

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The Standard of Living Dorothy Parker

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  1. The Standard of LivingDorothyParker

  2. DorothyParker • Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. • From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wingpolitics led to a place on the Hollywood blacklist.

  3. QuotationsbyDorothyParker • Takecare of theluxuriesandthenecessitieswilltakecare of themselves. • I'veneverbeen a millionaire but I justknowI'd be darling at it.

  4. Background information After World War II, consumer spending no longer meant just satisfying an indulgent material desire. In fact, the American consumer was praised as a patriotic citizen in the 1950s, contributing to the ultimate success of the American way of life. "The good purchaser devoted to 'more, newer and better' was the good citizen," historian Lizabeth Cohen explained, "since economic recovery after a decade and a half of depression and war depended on a dynamic mass consumption economy."

  5. FifthAvenue • FifthAvenue has been a greatstretchfor as long as New York has been a greatcity, anditsvery name evokeswealthandopulence. Allwhoconsiderthemselvessuaveandcosmopolitanenduphere, andthestoresshowcase New York’smostconspicuousconsumerism. Thattheshopping is beyondthemeans of mostpeopleneedn’tyou put off, forFifthAvenue has some of thecity’sbestarchitecture, too; theboutiquesandstoresarejusttheicing on thecake.

  6. The federal government and the American people saw the new consumerism as a way to deemphasize class differences while stressing traditional gender roles. With the things that defined "the good life" within economic reach, working-class people could achieve the upward mobility they craved. • One of the biggest industries to benefit from the end of the war and the rise of consumerism was the fashion industry. People had grown tired of the clothing restrictions that governments had enacted during wartime, and soon returned to wearing luxurious and expressive clothing.

  7. Historians such as Angel Kwolek-Folland have convincingly demonstratedthat changes in business ideologies underwrote newunderstandings of masculinity and femininity. As women entered the middleclassworkforce in unprecedented numbers, normative concepts of genderincreasingly became oriented around professional occupations for both menand women, making "the needs of the workplace mesh with attitudes aboutappropriatewomanhoodandmanhood."

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