ABSTRACT
The door was slam shut as anti-immigrant animus soared throughout the first three decades of the twentieth century. In the previous chapters, newcomers were concisely presented as one of the many other aspects that stirred transformation in America. This chapter, however, tends to a much broader framework of thematic analysis of newcomers, in the novels and in historical landmarks, while underlining the connections between major motifs of xenophobia, racism, and materialism and simultaneously addressing the momentous national debate on immigration before and throughout the 1920s. Though the home motif maintains its function as a place under threat, it also becomes an emblem of America undermined by immigrants and foreigners.
