Question

Which archetypal topic does this passage most closely address?

Answer 1

Main Street





by Sinclair Lewis (excerpt)


... You don't get me at all. You can't appreciate a man's work. You're abnormal. You've fussed so much with these fool novels and books and all this highbrow junk----You like to argue!" It ended, a quarter of an hour later, in his calling her a "neurotic" before he turned away and pretended to sleep. For the first time they had failed to make peace. "There are two races of people, only two, and they live side by side. His calls mine 'neurotic'; mine calls his 'stupid.' We'll never understand each other, never; and it's madness for us to debate--to lie together in a hot bed in a creepy room--enemies, yoked."

Answer 2

the human struggle for dominance



false love giving way to enmity



lack of value in mundane domestic life



the conflict between the sexes