"Then he discovered the annex to the party. The boys and girls disappeared occasionally, and he remembered rumors of their
drinking together from hippocket flasks. He tiptoed round the house, and in each of the dozen cars waiting in the street he
saw the points of light from cigarettes, from each of them heard high giggles. He wanted to denounce them but (standing in
the snow, peering round the dark comer) he did not dare. He tried to be tactful. When he had returned to the front hall he
coaxed the boys, "Say, if any of you fellows are thirsty, there's some dandy ginger ale." "Oh! Thanks!" they condescended. He
sought his wife, in the pantry, and exploded, "I'd like to go in there and throw some of those young pups out of the housel
- Excerpt from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 1922
Using the excerpt, what is one implied factor that led to teen rebellion in the 1920's?
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A)Prohibition
B)Mass consumerism
C)New forms of dancing
D)High unemployment rate