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Tight White Collar Study Guide

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by Grace Metalious
About 5 pages (1,417 words)

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Social Concerns

Tight White Collar provides another examination small town life; this time the microcosm is a small mill town in New England. Once again the book was designed to get underneath the tight white collar of respectability behind which people hide and which can choke them until they lose their humanity.

Metalious was always concerned with exposing hypocrisy; this time, however, her interests were less sexual and more economic and social.

As with all small, single-industry towns,.....

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Tight White Collar from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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