Choose two texts that we’ve read from week 3 and discuss them in relationship to the idea of the “American Dream.” How do they fulfill the American dream? Use textual examples (quotes) to support your claims.
Please use two of the lectures provide below, excluding the biographies. PLEASE DO NOT USE BIOGRAPHY.
Course lectures:
T.S. Elliot biography (2003-2006) and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (pp. 2006-2009)
Langston Hughes biography and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Mother to Son,” and “I, Too” (pp. 2221-2228)
Ernest Hemingway biography and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (pp 2203-2221)
F.Scott Fitzgerald biography (pp. 2147-2149) and “Babylon Revisited” (pp. 2164-2178)
Richard Wright biography and “The Man Who Was Almost A Man” (pp. 2244-2253)
Tennessee Williams biography and A Streetcar Named Desire (Scenes One and Two) (pp. 2315).
textbook for reference. The Norton Anthology of American Literature 8th ed. by Nina Baym*