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Through Mailer’s dual role as a demonstrator and narrator, readers are provided | Through Mailer’s dual role as a demonstrator and narrator, readers are provided | ||
a rich witness to the many obstacles that were set before marchers in the form of a biased media and government officials opposed to the peace | a rich witness to the many obstacles that were set before marchers in the form of a biased media and government officials opposed to the peace | ||
movement, including the military and police whose physical abuse is featured in the novel. | movement, including the military and police whose physical abuse is featured in the novel. | ||
''Armies'' is also concerned with a sweeping view of American culture ''vis-à-vis'' the march, for this is a “literary project . . . radically committed to a | |||
rendering of the American reality”,{{sfn|Scott|1973|p=18}} and ''Armies'' becomes Mailer’s | |||
attempt to expand upon the march’s implications for the national character. | |||
When ''Armies'' was published, the country was divided over the war in Vietnam; according to a 1967 Gallup poll, when asked whether “the U.S. made a mistake sending troops to Vietnam” forty-six percent said yes while almost an equal amount, forty-four percent, answered no.{{sfn|Gallup|1972|p=2087}} Mailer addresses | |||
the division over the war and also the disparaging of anti-war | |||