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''Gear'' is a 1969 character sketch written by Richard Goldstein that was one of a series first appearing in 1966 in ''The Village Voice'', a weekly New York City newspaper started in 1955 that reports news and various subjects in pop culture. Similar to short stories, character sketches in journalism became popular among 1960s writers and in this era focused on providing a realistic “picture of a ''type'' of person,”〔Wolfe, Tom; Johnson, E. W. (1973). The New Journalism. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-014707-5. P.80.〕 but differed in that sketches did not tell stories of particular individuals. Often, sketches served as warm-ups to an actual story, with light tone, mild mood and focus on a single aspect of the character type, “usually in details of status life,"〔 such as social or economic status. ==Summary== ::"Clothing IS important. Especially if you’ve got braces and bony fingers and a bump the size of a goddam coconut on your head. And especially if you’re fourteen. Because—ask anyone. Fourteen is shit.”〔Wolfe, Tom; Johnson, E. W. (1973). The New Journalism. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-014707-5. P.84.〕 Told in third-person point of view, limited to the protagonist, ''Gear'' is about a mid- to late-1960s 14-year-old boy named Ronnie. Ronnie wants to be cool and accepted because he is often made fun of by his peers. The kids call him “Railroad Tracks” and “Brooklyn Bridge” for the metal braces in his mouth. He is sketched as funky looking: skinny with acne; curly, balding hair; “bent fingers;” and “a face that looks like the end of a watermelon.”〔Goldstein, Richard; The Village Voice (1969). Greenwich Village, N.Y. P.81. Rpt. in The New Journalism.〕 At home, he feels unwanted and as though his parents take him for granted. Ronnie lives in vain to become more like those who are popular – those the tone implies he thinks are more desirable and attractive to the world. He buys a pair of bell-bottom pants and has his mother tailor the cuffs to look cool. Thinking the new pants will make him more of a man, he heads out with the assumption that life will be better. The style of clothing Ronnie selects is typical of the style of a 1960s mod, as he is called by the narrator. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gear (Village Voice)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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