...Door by most of the people in Timbertown, Oregon. Maybe it’s just because she is so obviously different from the townsfolk or that she considers them aliens, but the sense remains that she is the stranger talking about strangers that she never understands. But in the Introduction of Stranger, you can sense a note of panic, her panic that the people of the town understand her viewpoint. This is where Stranger converges with Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things – on that controlled note of panic. It is ironic that both authors are attempting to quell panic when they are clearly feeling panic themselves, though controlled.
Authors’ Core Arguments
In Stranger, no matter what the remainder of the book indicates,...