Criticism, September 22nd, 1994
Charles Dickens' 'Martin Chuzzlewit' portrays Americans as violent children who act out their desires and aggressions because they have not developed a culture to replace that of the rejected England. American national identity in the novel is nonexistent except in that all Americans have rejected the rituals of England. Therefore, Americans experience homesickness for England because they have not established a home in America, generating unresolved desires and anger.
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