INTERPRETATION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE “AMERICAN DREAM” IN THE WORKS OF THOMAS DREISER BY AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARS.
Keywords:
The concept of the American dream; society; middle class; problem; devastating impact; the concept of the American tragedy.Abstract
Dreiser wrote fifteen short stories, and the resulting manuscript he called “American Tragedies.” Each story dealt with a topical theme of the time: an American young man, trying to fulfill his dream of becoming rich by marrying a rich woman, decides to commit a crime. In a letter to Jack Wilgus, Thomas Dreiser admitted: “I thought about this story for a long time, because it seemed to me not only to reflect every aspect of our national life - politics, society, religion, business, sex, but it was a story that was so common to every boy growing up in small American towns. It was a particularly true story of what life can do to an individual and how helpless an individual is against it.”
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