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Anti-Urban Sentiment in The United States

Despite increasing urbanization and the concentration of almost half of the US population

in urban regions, the anti-urban worldview continues to hold water. The book “The Sport of God

"reveals this through its plot and various character. The book is about a tragic family trying to

move away from their farm to the town. It is a story within a story that focuses on the

Hamilton's. It traces the arrest of Berry Hamilton, where he was falsely accused of stealing

money from his employer. His wife and two children move to New York City, and one by one,

the family succumbs to the temptation of the city. The daughter ends up in stage, the mother in

an abusive marriage, and the son in prison. The story's revelation from the book "The Sport of

God" fits an anti-urban quote by Jefferson about urban cities.

According to Jefferson's anti-urban sentiments, placing men in urban cities is not a good

idea as they acquire habits that do not contribute to their happiness later in life. The same can be

seen in the novel, where the Hamilton family was captivated by the urban family that had

brought them to their current plight. In a manner similar to Jefferson's anti-urban views, the

Hamilton family in the novel falls victim to the environmental dictated cityscape due to their

misguided beliefs about acquiring the urban "literacy" needed to operate in the setting

(Dubar,62). In order to document the discriminatory power of planation and literature and

liberate the rest of the family from the shackles of the fictional form in a sense, Berry is sent to
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prison. Dunbar then tests Fannie, Joe, and Kitty in the waters of Norther urban Naturalism,

which they survive.

In the book, according to the novel's sweeping opening paragraph, New York is portrayed

as a "cruel, cold, and unfeeling" magnet that entices "provincials" such as the Hamilton’s to

sample its fatal attractions. Reverberating with embodying actives like the Hamilton’s, it entices

them to sample its fatal attractions. Personifying words such as "insidious," "subtle," and

"unfeeling" (Dunbar,82) are used to describe this character. Hamilton’s attempted to separate

themselves from their rural surroundings by sowing seeds of urban migration failure before the

Hamilton’s ever arrived in their new city. Moreover, according to the Jefferson anti-urban quote,

he believes that cities represented a kind of natural deterioration in -a retreat from the pastoral,

agricultural ideal that he held dear. For Jefferson's anti-urban quotes, cities provide an artificial

overpopulation of people, and in places where there is overpopulation and land is scarce, the

spirit of capitalism and the drive to make money take precedence over the yearning for liberty

and the desire to live off of the land.

In conclusion, the "Sport of God" and Jefferson provide the context of thinking about ant-

urban sentiments in the US. anti-urban sentiments include placing men in the urban cities is not a

good idea as they acquire habits that do not contribute to their happiness later in life and cities

provide an artificial overpopulation of people, and in places where there is overpopulation and

land is scarce, which are enough for the anti-urban to agree with the authors.
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Works Cited

Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Sport of the Gods. Mansfield Centre, Ct, Martino Publishing, 2015.