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American Dream and the Writings of John Steinbeck

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

Overview of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...

American Hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

Insights into Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the American Dream and its deceptiveness as depicted in Miller's tragic drama are examined. Three sources are cited...

1920' American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

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...

Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson's Vies of 'the American Dream'

In five pages this paper examines how the American Dream is viewed by Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson in a comparative analysis...

American Dream Defined

The American Dream is defined in a paper consisting of six pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

American Dream and Death of a Salesman

considerations in Death of a Salesman. There are three shifts created by Millers "time bends" in the play: the historical time (19...

Senior Citizens and Rex L. Jones' Poker and the American Dream

In five pages this paper considers the reasons why elderly individuals play poker in hopes of capturing part of the American Dream...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Faulty American Dream in House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In eight pages this essay considers how each of these works reveal the American Dream to be flawed as reflected within their diffe...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

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...

American Dream's Failure in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

In ten pages this paper discusses the various theories presented by Sigmund Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams including intern...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

In a paper consisting of five pages this autobiographical text is considered in terms of a female Polish immigrant coming to Ameri...

An Overview of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...

Mentally Ill Individuals, Dreams, and the Theories of Carl Jung

account but does not negate the deep dark crevices of the mind that dreams grow in. Everyone has had a horrific nightmare a...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...