Abstract
Abstract This article argues that the characterization of the Antrobus family in Act 1 of The Skin of Our Teeth can be read through the lens of nineteenth-century American yeoman culture and that the apocalypse of the first act represents the end of the dominance of the yeoman lifestyle at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is likely that in constructing the act, Thornton Wilder drew upon his experiences living near yeoman society during his years in New Jersey as well as his family’s past as American yeomen. In this view, the Antrobus family members can be seen as representative of the family structure of yeoman life and the glacier that threatens the family as representative of the changing of American society to a more suburban and urban-oriented culture.
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