 In this work, Frye presented the idea of the "garrison mentality" as the attitude from which Canadian literature has been written.The garrison mentality is the attitude of a member of a community that feels isolated from cultural centres and besieged by a hostile landscape.Frye maintained that such communities were peculiarly Canadian, and fostered a literature that was formally immature, that displayed deep moral discomfort with "uncivilized" nature, and whose narratives reinforced social norms and values.