The book Clear Springs is about Bobbie Ann Mason's life growing up in the South after World War II and the changes within her family. Growing up in Clear Springs, Kentucky, Mason and her family faced many of the same economic and cultural changes experienced by Southern families during and after World War II. Changes in women's roles, popular culture, and population have affected every member of Mason's family. Before World War II, women were expected to be housewives by cleaning, cooking, and caring for children. Women were discouraged from working outside the home and were often judged by the rest of society. Bobbie Ann Mason provides great examples of the duties expected of women of the time, and her grandmother is a perfect model of domesticity. At one point Mason talks about a conversation between his grandmother and his mother. Mason's mother, Christy, decides to go back to work, but her grandmother disapproves and says she should stay home and take care of her daughters (Mason, 116). Christy on the other hand is an example of a modern woman. A woman willing to go to work outside the home to help support her family when needed. Christy gets a job at a clothing company. Mason says many women left the farm and went to work in factories (Mason, 83). During and after World War II, many women began working outside the home, changing their idea of ​​what it meant to be a woman and the duties that accompanied it. Folk culture played an important role in the Mason family and the Southern region. Radio and television were introduced and brought new forms of entertainment, access to world news, and enlightenment. People in the South usually unaccustomed to many forms of entertainment now had access to new options. Mason talks about a lot of different things…middle of paper…California and New York. He says they also found great jobs at places like Disney World and Coca-Cola, but they were able to do so because they always remembered their real home (Mason, 41). Even people who left small farms and towns for big cities never forgot where they came from and could return at any time. Bobbie Ann Mason's family faced the challenges of most Southern families in adapting to changing times and cultures. Mason's mother managed to adapt to the new idea of ​​the role of women by leaving the farm and working in a factory while maintaining her role as a caring mother and homemaker. With new forms of entertainment and ideas from popular culture his family has managed to stay in touch with the changing times. And even though she left home for the big cities like many people, Bobbie Ann Mason never forgot her roots and her family.