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The elements of home, familiarity, and comfort embodied by women and the way are portrayed as a consistent image that follows a woman throughout her lifetime into old age.

Shanahan conveys ideas about dementia, intergenerational relations, social impacts of aging, and changes in engagement in past recreational activities as an elderly person.

Leighton depicts the way youth is preferred over old age, both stages of life seen in distinct lights.

Glackens makes a commentary on how readily those of old age advocate for or oppose reform policies.

Glackens illustrates the relationship between the elderly and a government whose interests are economically driven.

Nankivell challenges the correlation between old age and compromised physical and cognitive abilities with the depiction of Henry G. Davis as a political candidate, running both physically and in the vice presidential race.

Keppler uses an elderly figure to convey the lack of efficacy of a political agenda and suggests an argument about gender dynamics.

Gallaway presents a commentary on the long-term reliability of rural life and agriculture in a growing industrial world as well as how the elderly fit into this landscape.

Pughe offers a political commentary on the treatment of the elderly by the Democratic Party, influenced by the context of early-20th-century American politics.

Ehrhart offers insight into the views of gender expectations and the perpetuation thereof in early 20th century America across generations in their understanding of, expression of, and attentiveness to prescribed versus assumed responsibility.