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Embedded within the novel in poetic imagery is a complex speculation on history, western history in general and American history in particular.

According to Carson McCullers, " the novel is the epic of modernity.

" Marguerite Young wrote Miss MacIntosh, My Darling as an American epic with an eye on James Joyce's epic of Dublin.

Young's unstated ambition in writing Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was to take up the challenge of her generation, to write " the great American novel.