The novel looking Backward by Edward Bellamy tells the reader how life was like in the nineteenth century. While there were many problems among his time he was ignorant to them because at that point in time the rich saw their overall conditions of Boston satisfactory and that’s all that mattered. The narrator of the novel, Julian West, enlightens the reader as to how an ordinary day in his life was like on May 30 1887, but when he goes into a trance of a mesmeric sleep being awoken in the era of the twentieth century Sept 10 year 2000, he observes the differences between the nineteenth and twentieth century and clearly sees the problems of his time. At the very beginning of the novel, the first line of the chapter was an attention getter.