Coney Island Response

Kasson writes about a rivalry of larger-than-life greed that manifestates into the Sodom and Gamora of Coney Island. Here, the individual can be overwhelmed of the senses to the point of obliviousness, subconciously seduced into "sins" after being repremanded into how to avoid hell, and lift the veil between carnal, sadistic feelings behind a facade of bordem. Kasson's history of Coney Island explains and sheds light on how it was developed to be an emeshment of the classes as well as good clean fun amusement. It was not intimidating or distant, it was a tangible experience that the common man could experience with his entire family. The fact that Coney Island was developed due to a rivarly between Tilyou, Thompson and Dundy, and Reynolds just proves the need for over compensation and ridiculous indulgence, truly highlighting the spirit of America. Lorca, uses the metaphor of vomit to show is disdain and disillusionment with Coney Island. Usually, when people vomit, it is due to over induglence which is exactly what Coney Island represents. The paradox of people trying to maintain the values of a good Christian propriety is juxtaposed by the leud entertainment and divugences that Gorky writes about. Coney island was an experiement of human nature to find the balance between reformation and deviance, a time in American history where people were trying to idenify themselves by what they prayed for and what provoked their senses.