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| The Emerald City, according to Henry Littlefield, represents Washington DC. In the book, the Emerald City is not a lustrous green, but a dull gray. It appears to people to be emerald because upon entry all people have to put on emerald colored glasses—the illusion of luster suggests a cynicism about politics. In his analysis of the parallels between the Populist movement and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Henry Littlefield cites an editorial Baum wrote in the 1890s in which he suggested that farmers feed sawdust to their livestock after fitting the animals with green glasses to make them think that they were eating feed. [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1. | Henry Littlefield, "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism," American Quarterly 16 (Spring, 1964), p. 50. The full text of this article is also online at www.amphigory.com/oz.htm. | |
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