"Our intention is simply to instruct the young, reform the old, correct the town, and castigate the age; this is an arduous task, and therefore we undertake it with confidence."
-Selections from Salmagundi
This quote is a metaphor that relates to the overall "newspaper" motif of the first letter of Salmagundi. The speaker is a self-acclaimed "journalist" who thinks he knows how to fix societies problems, which is displayed in the quotation above. As the selection progresses, though, it's revealed that the diction the speaker uses is over exaggerating the point that the staff at the newspaper knows better than everyone else does. Although the imagery and diction are depicting a newspaper office setting, it is indirectly reflecting the conflict of the human mind. People will act confident, like the newspaper office, so they can get praise that they feel they're worthy of, or that they just want so they don't feel so under appreciated. The conflict presented in this piece between any person and their mind displays that everyone has a feeling of emptiness inside of them.
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