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The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...

Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

In six pages this essay compares the dreams of each of these African American activists. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Willy Loman's Nightmarish American Dreams

"Happy" The irony of the situation is doubled by the shadow (and what is the shadow of a dream,...

America and I by Yezierska

In five pages an essay by immigrant Yezierska entitled 'America and I' is critically assessed with assimilation in America, the Am...

Suburban Dream Subverted

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

Mythical American Dream

of many prevailing myths of the time. Keseys belief was that LSD was going to usher in the alternate reality and spirituality that...

American Dream in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman II

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the American Dream

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the American Dream

They knew they could find workers who would work for almost nothing, and if they failed there would be perhaps 50 more waiting in ...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Character of Happy Loman

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Willy Loman's Wrong Dreams

and new trends. He could not open his mind to new ideas concerning anything, including his family. In essence, he was a man with a...

Essay on 1999 Documentary Nuyorican Dreams

at an alternative school which he founded. Robert is an eloquent spokesman regarding how the culture of poverty harms minority mem...

Is Attaining 'the American Dream' Realistic?

in a double-wide trailer. Others see economic success as comfortably being able to pay the costs of living in a city, without eve...

Wolfman Case and Other Topics

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

An American Dream Tragedy, The Great Gatsby

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

Nick Carraway's Perspective on Gatsby

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...

Attitudes Towards the DREAM Act: Developing a Survey

Opinion / Agree / Strongly Agree 4. I am generally accepting and tolerant of other cultures and ethnicities. Strongly Disagree /...

Interpreting the American Dream

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Character of Jay Gatsby

and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

The American Dream and Its Death

is silly as the family lives in New York City. And "Happy" is ridiculous; perhaps Willy thought that if he gave his son that name,...

Puerto Rican Obituary and the Nuyorican Community

of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...

Jay Gatsby, The American Dream and His Failure to Grasp It

as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...

Miscommunication in Two Works

matter how an author chooses to draw the portrait, the mother figure is one of the primal archetypes of human society. This paper ...

Restoring the American Dream

Zakaria traces what he calls the "hollowing out" of the American middle class and the chaos that has wrought on the economy and th...

Comparative Analysis of The Great Gatsby and Six Degrees of Separation

In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...

Nick Carraway's Narrative in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Dreaming

feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...