does he call attention to the injustices with which young Americans are dealing, but Dylan also sets the stage for a full-scale generational war. Similarly, he acknowledges that what the young Americans are about to embark on will not be thought of as favorable by the parents. Finally, Dylan ends his song with encouragement for the counter culture, saying, "The order is/ rapidly fadin'./ And the first one now/ will later be last/ For the times they are a-changin'." While Bob Dylan did not invent the idea of the youths of America coming together for a cultural rebellion, his music does reflect society's views that the current system was desperately in need of change. As thousands of counter cultural Americans listened to his words and started to realize that their actions could make a difference in the policies of the government, he also sent out a warning to these same young adults of what their lives would be like if they continued to allow the establishment to rule their lives.In 1965, Bob Dylan released Like A Rolling Stone, the tale of a stranded woman, alone on the streets after growing up in affluence. In detailing a woman who "don't seem so proud/ about having to be scrounging for [her] next meal," Dylan immediately shows the contrast of a woman who used to routinely give dimes to bums in the street. The woman, who went to the "finest schools," was stubborn enough not to "compromise/ with the mystery tramp" so now she is paying the price by living on the street. The mystery tramp, the government, and all its promises and policies could not, it seems, take care of a woman who had serves it to no end. After her own government threw out the woman into the street, Dylan describes the woman crawling back to the government, as she "stare[s] into the vacuum of his eyes/ and ask him do you want to make a deal?" Giving his listeners the symbol of the devil and his vacuum eyes, Dylan shows the plight of someone who had faith in h...
