Discuss the central role of TV, movies, shopping centres, and other post modern cultural icons in Mason’s Shiloh. Shiloh story by Mason often refers to post modern icons like TV, movies, songs and others. It is not an unusual thing because in most stories they are present but in general, beside the plot they do not have other functions. Here in Shiloh I think it is different. Mason uses a large number of references …showed first 75 words of 744 total…

…showed last 75 words of 744 total…inadequate but because the world they live in is inadequate. Norma sees her husband for the first time since their weeding. She has to grow up; she is no longer a child. Cigarette smoking is definitely a post modern icon. It all really started in the early 60’s. We saw people for the first time smoke on TV show. Smoking was “in” and since we didn’t know the side effects everybody was doing it.