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Kuruni

4th Dec, 2020 12:24:01 AM

What tropes are unbuilt here? Literature

These are originally two bullets entries on UnbuiltTrope.Literature

Arrowsmith has often been cited as having predicted many of the problems facing the medical profession in the modern day, including the political difficulties surrounding public health programs and the competing interests of scientists, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies, all in a time when modern medicine was still a fairly new field. (Lewis did his research when writing Arrowsmith, working with science writer Paul de Kruif to ensure accuracy to the point that de Kruif received a quarter of the royalties.)
Elmer Gantry predicted many of the scandalous megachurch pastors and televangelists of the 20th century, the titular Gantry portrayed as a womanizing crook who destroys the lives of everybody around him and is utterly cynical about the faith, seeing it purely as a racket after deciding he could make more money as a preacher than a lawyer. Lewis was writing about the tent revivalists of the early 20th century like Billy Sunday, but the field would soon explode with the rise of radio and television; when the book was published in 1927, the radio preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was already one of the most famous Christian leaders in the US and had been caught up in a highly publicized kidnapping case.

The first one doesn't state what trope is being unbuilt, while the second one sound like it's straight example, although I found both of them to be confusing. So I would like to ask if they're really Unbuilt Trope or not?

Edited by Kuruni