![]() ![]() ![]() Grassic Gibbon did not agree with the traditional role of women, or their being viewed as the intellectual inferiors of men. ![]() The character of James Mitchell, to whom he jokingly gave his own (real) name, represents the hypocrisy and pomposity which he himself so disliked. In Sunset Song, the sympathetic characters of Chae Strachan and Long Rob are portrayed as sharing these views. He despised traditional, institutional religion. This was the time of the Depression, when the gap between rich and poor was immense, and the deprivation in working-class areas of Glasgow was particularly shocking. In the novel, the sympathetic characters share his desire for social equality and his anti-establishment views. In common with his character Chae Strachan, Grassic Gibbon became a committed socialist while he lived in Glasgow, inspired by the Red Clydesiders' campaigns for social justice. ![]()
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