That is the literary cultic's esti-motion of American literature.
"Esch play, each novel, each bit Jot writing (each motion picture) must end with the trite, And they ives happily ever often""
Defence in this case is particularly: difficult because of the almost insurmountable array of published books land stories, proving so obviously the {truth of the critic's saying.
Americans are optimists. There is nothing gained in denying the fact. [They are so much optimists that, the human being who sinks to the evel of giving a prognosis of "hope-Ness" to every situation he encounters is universally disliked. There is no room in American taste for pessimism. Why?
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