The grapes of wrath: the american dream

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THE AMERICAN DREAM
I. The end of the US pastoral : A. Definition of the US pastoral : 1. The American Eden :
St John de Crèvecoeur : Letters from an US Farmer & Sketches of XVIIIthC America (1782). 2. The Jeffersonian ideal : a. Farmers as God’s elect. b. The right to property. B. The lost garden : 1. California as the American Eden. 2. Corruption in the garden : a. The serpent p 230. b. The garden as a desert. c. The forbidden garden. d. Decay in the garden : Ch 25. C. The defeat of the Jeffersonian ideal : 1. The bond with nature has been severed. 2. From farmers to businessmen. 3. No access to individual property. 4. Individualism is no longer a viable stance.
II. The failure of US democracy : A. The blow dealt to the work ethic : 1. The migrants’ willingness to work hard. 2. No work available. 3. Success is not the road to happiness. B. The end of the melting pot : 1. Uprooted Americans. 2. The same situation as the Indians. 3. Racism. C. The failure of the democratic ideal : 1. The rule of a few powerful owners. 2. Working-class Americans are no longer free men : a. The shattered dream of freedom. b. The new slaves of America.
III. The dream has turned into a nightmare : A. The dream proves a mirage : 1. A utopia. 2. Reluctance to let go of the dream. 3. The dream is doomed to remain a picture. 4. The reversed journey. B. The perversion of the dream : 1. The dream close at hand. 2. Corruption . C. America as a wasteland : 1. The despoiled garden. 2. The wasteland : a. The symbolic Dust Bowl. b. The symbolic wrecking

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