Throughout the novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow there were major cultural and social changes. The cutural changes were from the creations of unions to the moving picture industry to the creation of a middle class. The development of unions was moving the lower class of society up into an undevoped middle class and moving some of the rich down to this new middle class. Some of the social changes ranged from changes in women's …showed first 75 words of 709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 709 total…The Younger brother takes his knowlage of explosives and helps other rebel groups until his death. This was his calling, his vision of life, his identity. These characters portrayed the perfact examples of what the culture was like and and how it was changing. They symbolized people from ragtime from both ways of thought to different sides of the law. They diplayed what it was like during ths great era of ragtime. Bibliography My head