Mall of America
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Essay "Mall of America"
"It elicited claustrophobia, sensory deprivation, and an unnerving disorientation"
(Guterson 207). Sounds like just the place to be, doesn't it? Does this quote, by any chance put
off a negative vibe? Doesn't really sound like something to say about one of the best places to
go in the nation? In the essay "Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America," author
David Guterson presents the readers with a rather negative attitude, towards this supposed
"Great and Powerful" Mall of America. But why? This almost unreal place, that can suddenly
make one stop in ah, by just simply looking in its general direction. " It resembled, from the
outside, a castle or fort, the Emerald City or Never-Never Land...