Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Flivver King, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Capitalism and Dehumanization
American Idealism and Disillusionment
Misinformation, Media Bias, and Ignorance
Individualism vs. Unionization
Technology and Progress
Summary
Analysis
As Daisy and Tom Jr. drive home, she asks what he’s going to do next, and he says he’s going to get a job at Ford’s. Daisy warns Tom against being a troublemaker at Ford’s and says that Tom should not talk about his plans to Hank.
Daisy’s warning that Tom Jr. shouldn’t talk to Hank about his involvement in the labor movement foreshadows the danger that Tom will face there, given Ford’s desperation to avoid unions at his factories and his willingness to resort to violence in order to stop the labor movement.
Themes
