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This article aims to expose that under the ethics of modernity Americans had a transmission through attributing a new identity of becoming urban villagers which signifies a divided state of mind between the rural and the urban lifestyles The dilemma of the modern man seems to manifest itself in the American mind from the beginning in the shape of a desire and or nostalgia for the rural yet a need for the urban The concept of 8220;urban villager 8221; will be evaluated in American literary context in respect to William Dean Howells 8217; The Rise of Silas Lapham Stephen Crane 8217;s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Upton Sinclair 8217;s The Jungle and Theodore Dreiser 8217;s An American Tragedy in American literature Key Words: Modernity Modern Man Urbanization Social Change Anomie American Literature

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