Analysis Of Me Generation By Tom Wolfe

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The narrative convention of Taxi Driver is significantly influential in a way due to its accurate capture of one modern individualistic feature: a loner like Travis Bickle in a big city like New York; not noticed, no reason to be noticed, he is one with his surroundings. From 1960s to 1970s, it was the time of drastic change in social values, when people started to consciously act as individuals, and the shackles from family, community and society were gradually degraded, which confirmed the label of “me generation” given by Tom Wolfe. By the 1980s the ethos of expressive individualism had grown into a national preoccupation, and permeated deeply into every domains of personal lifestyles. Taxi Driver, as a media content, appropriately displayed

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