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What is your understanding of the American dream and how does Steinbeck show the dream will never be realised

“A dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

The American dream was written by a man called James Truslow Adams in his book “The Epic of America” written in 1931. this dream followed after the wall street crash when banks lost people’s money and the people were left penniless, it also followed after the great dustbowls where tornadoes blew away the soil and people were left starved because they couldn’t grow food and...

Posted by: Angelia Holliday

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