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Your trust can be torn apart any minute. Another theme is face your problems, not run away from them. Willa is a strong going girl who tries to ignore her problems, not face them. The conflict that she faces is that she is held captive by Reed, the Hollywood Killer, and almost loses her life.
Answer: She was reluctant to define anything remotely resembling a national character because " it was a mongrel nation." There were so many different ethnic groups that had merged into one. This made it difficult and sometimes pointless to make just one group "entirely American."