Analysis Of Amusing The Million: Coney Island At The Turn Of The Century

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A generation is a period that is developed over a span of time in which a group of individuals share similar views about life. Beliefs, cultures, ideas, traditions and habits within a society evolve over a period of time creating new generations. If the mainstream way of life within a generation in a society is broken by a new group of people, it will provoke many tensions. Events will transpire and policies will be passed, forcing citizens to react in both positive and negative ways. In the books Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century by John F. Kasson and All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed America by Glenn C. Altshculer, generational tensions such as: the arrival of Rock ‘N’ Roll, influences of drinking and sex, the relationship between teenagers and their parents, and the way women dressed, increased rapidly in the early 19th century and throughout the 20th century because of the changing social and cultural conditions. Women in the 19th century were expected to fulfill the roles of taking care of the children, making sure there was food on the table, and cleaning the house. On the contrary, their husbands worked in factories or domestic services. Women had very little education and were not allowed to …show more content…
Relationships were supposed to be private according to this specific generation. Gender relations transformed through this era, from showing zero affection, to displaying intense affection for everyone to see. The middle- class did not approve gentlemen introducing themselves to women they did not know, let alone even tip their hat towards them. The social- class was not as strict but still had some restrictions, for example, if a girl went out with a boy, she was to have a chaperone monitoring the two. “Privacy could be had only in public.” Coney Island made it possible for couples to get away from all the
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