Why did authors Twain and Warner call this time period The Gilded Age?

Answer 1

Well to answer this question you first have to know what gilded means. Gilded means that something looks like gold but underneath it is really metal. Mark Twain thought that this was a lot like the time period. People were fascinated with the wealth, progress, adventure, and reform of this time. They were so wrapped up in it that they ignored the poverty and the corruption going on around them.

Answer 2

Twain and Warner called the time period "The Gilded Age" to highlight the superficial prosperity and wealth that masked deep social problems and inequalities beneath the surface. The term "gilded" refers to something being overlaid with a thin layer of gold, implying that the era appeared shiny and prosperous on the outside but was actually plagued by corruption and social issues underneath.

Answer 3

A "Golden Age" is a period when every thing is good from surface to core. A "Gilded Age" looks like gold on the surface but is base metal underneath. Twain felt this era, with its fascination with wealth, power and adventure, ignored the presense of poverty and corruption.

The things he had trouble with were potentially:

• wars and rumors of war and the glorification of war (See his "War Prayer")
• racism against ldhe Chinese, Indians and freed American slaves
• disease (his children died)
• poverty
• religion and its abuses (See "Letters From the Earth)

Answer 4

Mark Twain described the period of the late 1800s in America as a Gilded Age because felt this era, with its fascination with wealth, power and adventure, ignored the presense of poverty and corruption.

Answer 5

Mark Twain described the period of the late 1800s in America as a Gilded Age because of the superficiality and corruption of the era.

Answer 6

he thought that American society was like a gilded piece of metal

Answer 7

a fascination with wealth covered the depth of poverty and corruption

Answer 8

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