Generational Moral Values in The Corn Planting

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a toddler and lived an innocent lifestyle), he "was out to some party every night, and right away he began to sell some of his amusing little drawings and to make money" (816). Will's actions showed his moral transformation from the influence of the city, or the "new generation", he moved to; the city represents the "new generation" in Will's time in which there were scarcely moral values, no remorse. The Hutchensons, Will's parents, were eager to receive occasional letters and drawings on the countryside in which they inhabited - the Hutchensons "were of the sort who work all the time, form early morning till later in the evenings, and on supper they often went out into the fields and worked again" (817). Once the Hutchensons had the opportunity to go visit their son in the city, but Hatch Hutchenson, Will's father, did not want to go; "the idea of anyone but him or his wife touching one of the Hutchenson cows seemed to hurt him...he didn't want anyone else plowing one of his ...

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