The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as an Allegory Although the Wizard of Oz is usually thought of as a children’s story, it has numerous and very obvious political and monetary metaphors throughout the story. The story is set in the late 1800’s during the time the gold standard was under serious scrutiny. William Jennings Bryan was a supporter of a movement to establish a bimetallic standard, meaning gold and silver. The large corporations, and …showed first 75 words of 532 total…

…showed last 75 words of 532 total…forth. Dorothy dissolves the witch with a bucket of water (what else for drought-ridden farmers?), but when they return to the Emerald City, they find that the Wizard (the money power) is only a manipulator, whose power rests on myth and illusion. Dorothy unmasks the wizard, and with the help of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South (support for silver was strong in the South), uses the silver slippers to return home to Kansas.