{"id":270,"date":"2017-02-21T23:55:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T04:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=270"},"modified":"2017-02-21T23:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T04:55:46","slug":"mr-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/sherwood-anderson-grace-paley\/mr-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Darwin and Mrs. Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The narration, often\u00a0from Faith&#8217;s perspective, refers to\u00a0Faith&#8217;s\u00a0father as Mr. Darwin and the mother as Mrs. Darwin. Social Darwinism is the theory that there is a survival of the fittest among groups, countries, races, etc. Further, Tom&#8217;s ideas about race in <em>Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0embody social darwinism. Thus, I wonder how the parents&#8217; last name of Darwin relate to social darwinism? Surely, Mr. Darwin&#8217;s holocaust joke has something to do with it, but otherwise I&#8217;m pretty stumped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The narration, often\u00a0from Faith&#8217;s perspective, refers to\u00a0Faith&#8217;s\u00a0father as Mr. Darwin and the mother as Mrs. Darwin. Social Darwinism is the theory that there is a survival of the fittest among groups, countries, races, etc. Further, Tom&#8217;s ideas about race in Gatsby\u00a0embody social darwinism. Thus, I wonder how the parents&#8217; last name of Darwin relate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sherwood-anderson-grace-paley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}