Oscar Wilde toured the United States and Canada in eighteen-eighty-two giving lectures as he traveled from city to city. During his time in America, he surveyed the ways of the people who resided there and the many things the country had to offer. Wilde had an appreciation for the American dream and the pursuit and the fight for freedom and liberty and noticed distinct differences between America and the countries of Europe he grew to know and understand. Wilde met many people and learned many things and appealed to charming men rumored to be rough and dangerous, his curiosity was met with large machinery meant to intimidate and young people willing to sell anything to earn a penny. America has advanced through the centuries since Wilde’s visit, yet the country has maintained most of its central morals and ways of living he took note of. …show more content…
Rather than extravagant clothing, common clothing was available to all people and there seemed to be less struggle. The ethic of hard work was very strong in the nineteenth century; the East was filled with new business and men flocked to the West to mine for gold. Most young men were taught specific lessons throughout childhood and were apprenticed into a specific trade or family business that would become their main income into adulthood. Inventors, considered crazy in most other countries, were honored in America and received help from investors to integrate science into society. Inventions was possibly the quickest way to wealth in the nineteenth century compared to street vendors whom Wilde observed selling crude copies of his poems for prices so small he felt