In addition, it is a view of Indianapolis’ evolution from a major marketing center to a great industrial city.
“Booth Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons is a delightful novel. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end.” - Van Wyck Brooks, literary critic, biographer, and, historian “The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington’s best novel.a typical story of an American family and town-the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city.
“It all seems absolutely real.The Magnificent Ambersons is a small-town story and who among American writers can reproduce the small-town atmosphere better than Booth Tarkington?.It is scarcely necessary to say that the book is well written.” - New Yok Times The lesson for me.recognize perceptions, and allow for changes in perspective. Also, a cautionary tale of pride and the consequences of a refusal to 'adapt' one's perceptions or behavior even after bearing witness to changes around them. It is a story about 'progress', in terms of time and change. "More than a view into the lives that create a family, and friends that come into view. As the wheels of industry transform the social landscape, the definitions of ambition, success, and loyalty also change. But George refuses to accept his diminishing status, clinging to all the superficiality he has always known. Eclipsed by a new breed of industrial tycoons and land developers whose power comes not through family connections but through financial dealings and modern manufacturing, George descends from the Midwestern aristocracy to the working class. George Amberson Minafer is the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family’s magnificence. The family serves as a metaphor for the old society that crumbled after the Industrial Revolution while a middle-western town spread and darkened into a city. Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize when it was first published, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty.
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