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From: manderso@sdcsvax.UUCP (Mark Anderson)
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Subject: wizard of oz == parable on Populism
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 15:06:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 15:06:44 1986
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Here is a short sample from Henry Littlefield's "The Wizard of
Oz: Parable on Populism", American Quarterly spring 1964 pp. 47.

Dorothy == Miss Everyman
	levelhead, human, and has a real problem, she is one of us

Wicked Witch of the East == evil Eastern Industrial influences

The Tin Woodman == Hard working laboror
	He was dehumanized and became a kind of machine

The Scarecrow == The midwestern farmer
	displays a sense of inferiority and self doubt, but
	is innately a very shrewd and very capable individual.

The Lion == William Jennings Bryan
	Tried hard to win vote of Eastern Labor but unsuccessful
	as lion's attack on tin woodman

Emerald City == Nation's Capital (Wizard == President)

Wicked Witch of the West == Malign nature
Winged Monkeys == plains Indians