Grace Metalious's Peyton Place

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Trough history one has learned that the 1950s era in America was the best time to have families and attain social mobility. As a result, one became to appreciate conventional values and applied extreme traditions in one’s household. However, America downplayed many scandalous events by choosing to ignore the matter or approach it as hearsay. At the same time, a new medium of exposing the problems in America of the 1950s was expressed through literature. The novel Peyton Place by Grace Metalious was dubbed as the novel that shocked the Nation. Untold shameful secretes were the main focus of the novel among the characters and the town. Ironically, the residents from Peyton Place also value traditions and conformity, likewise in America. Consequently,