Addams had a unique view of popular culture because she used to think that popular culture tends to make people run aimlessly behind things that mean little to their lives. People are being fooled by the capitalist approach that makes them feel that only materialistic things matter and thus, people are running behind what society considers as valuable. Addams (1903) noted that “This first simple demand upon the theater for romance is closely allied to one more complex which might be described as a search for solace and distraction in those moments of first awakening from the glamour of a youth's interpretation of life to the sterner realities which are thrust upon his consciousness.”