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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Tragedy and Economics

In six pages Miller's play is examined in terms of the tragic consequences that resulted from the American Dream of economic prosp...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and an Analysis of East versus West

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison on Individual Choices

In five pages this paper compares Beloved by Toni Morrison with Langston Hughes' 'Montage of a Dream Deferred' in a consideration ...

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...

Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

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...

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,...

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

Chinese Immigrant Mothers

of the nation, America is and was considered a land where someone could be anything they wanted, and they could succeed and be ric...

The American Dream and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

that "the one who dies with the most toys wins" which is illustrative of the desire so many people have to own the best house, the...

Symbolism in Great Gatsby & Animal Dreams

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

Hugh Brody: Maps and Dreams

find a way to describe both cultures without any of the sentimentality that comes with an examination of native cultures, and with...

Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...

A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

to make sure that this dream, whatever the dream may be, is not deferred. There are moments, however, when each of the dreams seem...

Themes: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Jefferson, Lincoln, and King

of the United States today. It speaks of the soul of the people and their dreams and desires and the foundations of their beliefs,...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

Death of a Salesman and the American Dream

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

The Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama

examines the values that Americans hold dear to them, as well as illustrating his own values. It is perhaps somewhat difficult to ...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Dreaming in Cuban/Cristina Garcia

notions about Cuba, her grandmother and Cuban life. Lourdes has to cope with Pilars attitude, such as when she mocks her adopted c...