Cowley's Exile's Return

Though Cowley wrote about American writers who were in self-imposed exile, one can say that it is more important to note in Cowley’s Exile’s Return that when the writers felt that they were in a political and social climate that was not to their liking, they left. These people (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, etc.) saved their money to leave their country of origin to escape an “aging” generation with such different beliefs from them, and wrote in other countries, which provided refuge. It is the ultimate protest.
When something is not to a person’s liking, rather than complaining, or not doing anything at all, leaving is a way to say that the insult endured is more than can be tolerated.