This paper examines the theories of Dean Barnlund regarding culture and how Shirly Jackson and Maxine Kingston demonstrate Barnlund's ideas. The paper will specifically look at how culture dominates the behavior of people, how and why culture is so powerful that very few people realize the impact that it has on them, and how culture completely surrounds people. Let us first look at how culture dominates the behavior of people. Dean Barnlund tells us that people are really blind as to why they do things. They just rush off and do them. Barnlund writes, “As long as people remain blind to the sources of their meanings, they are imprisoned within them.” (Barnlund, 73). Both Jackson and Kingston overwhelmingly demonstrate this point through the insanity of the villagers mad-rush to stone Jessie Hutchinson. Old Man Warner calls out “Come on! Come on!” (Jackso....

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