Does The Common Man Hurt Or Benefit American Culture

On Demand What is the common man? Does the idea of “the common man” hurt or benefit American culture? The statement that realistic writers capture the life and times of “the common man” is detrimental to American culture because of three reason; it can be bias, even if two people have the same lifestyle that doesn’t mean it’s the same, or even that “the common man” does not exist. To begin, the statement that a writer captures the life and times of “the common man” is just be purely on what he believes and not on facts a statistics. Think about this; An American man might make a statement saying, “Football is the best and most important sport in the world.” However, a man that grew up in Germany might say, “Soccer is the best and most important

However, those people who you believe you know them as, “the common man” truly are not. I know this because of multifaceted characters. Imagine a boy that’s in all the movies as the popular boy. He probably plays football, very popular, and that all many people believe that everything in his life is going his way. However, that popular football player that has everything going his way, actually hates the game and only is playing the sport because that the only way he will be able to afford college. Multifaceted people are shown everywhere. For example, in The Outcasts of Poker Flat, it describes Mr. Oakhurst in the beginning with, “...His pockets of the sums he had won from them.” Showing his gambling problems, causing reader to see him as greedy, which if “the common man” was a real thing that all he would be. However, later in the story, “Mr. Oakhurst took the Innocent aside, and showed him a pair of snowshoes.” After showing the Innocent the snowshoes, Mr. Oakhurst gives him the shoes to the Innocent could continue his travels. This shows a new side of Mr. Oakhurst, as a caring and giving man. This makes Mr. Oakhurst a