Podoba meščanov pri Ivanu Tavčarju

Being disconnected from the natural environment and rural labor, townspeople are mostly presented negatively: as physically weak, with indecent and strutting looks and manners; shallow, inauthentic, unrelia­ble, and adulterous in love; bragging, greedy, impious; and not committed to Slovenian identity. In nearly all cases the narrators of these stories are also participants in the stories (reporting either about themselves or others), and so the question of whether this was also a view that Tavčar himself held deserves consideration.