Alices Restaurant was opened by Alice and Ray Broch for about a year or so in Barrington Massachusets. This affected the artists life becouse alice brock ran the church that was considered a haven to the local youth.
Arlo Guthrrie in my opinion wrote the song as a testiment to his personal protest against a currupt and inoperative system of goverment and social workings. Furthurmore i find it apparent near the end of the song that Arlo hoped to awaken these problematic issues inside people and to gather a movement. The tone of the song seemed to give away a certain element of his Psyche with a hint of humorous sarcasm twords his struggles. The refrain "you can get anything you want" seemed to imply (in my opinion a certain realm of drug use) and a metaphore as to the fact that Alice Brock provided for him much of the wisdom insight and enlightenment he wished to gain, and that with such a mentor others could easily do the same.
And this is how i explain the admins (jiffypops) naming of this blog. Alices resturant is meant to be a source of enlightnment and insight for youth. and hopefully a place where we can creativly grow beyond our previus borders.
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I really like the way you are able to infer meaning from what you have read. I must admit, your explanation for what "anything you want" means is stated about as well as it could be stated in my opinion. However, that is our opinion. The great thing about literature is that people can derive different meanings from the exact same words.
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