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The article presents the literary criticism of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It outlines the character Marie St. Clare and her painful headaches and women's health in U.S. Topics include the sickness caused by poorly designed houses, poor diets, improper clothing, general inactivity and domestic life in nineteenth century; interest of author in women's work inside the home & in the larger civic arena; and also mention the book "The American Woman's Home."

A literary criticism of the book "Born to Rebel" by Benjamin E. Mays is presented. It mentions negroes were required to sit in segregated waiting rooms, inferior to those reserved for whites in the offices of white doctors in the U.S. It also mentions Mays's views were echoed by Martin Luther King, Jr., who considered Mays to be his spiritual mentor and intellectual father.

A literary criticism of the book "Mildred Pierce" by James M. Cain is presented. Topics discussed include alienation due to society driven by conspicuous consumption, the book "The Theory of the Leisure Class," by sociologist Thorstein Veblen, economic scarcity in the U.S. due to the Great Depression and influence of Veblen on Cain.

The article presents literary criticism of the book "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a particular focus on the roles of automobiles and currency in the novel. Details on the monetization of automobiles and consumer attitudes in the 1920s are presented. Other topics include car dealers, the finance industry, and the character Daisy Buchanan.