A Research On Broken American Dream In The Works Of Dreiser

The American dream is a recurring cultural motif has been American literature, itsappearance can be traced back to the beginning of American civilization, it is accompaniedby the birth of the United States and the birth of the connotations of their dreams with thedevelopment of American society and the evolving changes. Today, in the context ofincreasing globalization, the impact of the American dream has exceeded the boundaries ofthe geographical and gradually become a "dream", and the impact on generation aftergeneration has grown up in the World Youth.However, today’s American dream is no longer the old people’s minds the dream of abetter world-in the equality of social, through hard work and effort, you can get a happylife. With the industrial revolution sweeping the globe, people’s material life in the shortterm rapid expansion up the connotation of the American Dream a time filled the temptationof desire and material, the original American dream has been deeply trapped, by materialand into the walls of the money to build capitalism, can not find a way out of the future.With the American dream to disappear, is the kind of pioneering and innovative spirit ofAmerica, will be replaced by the great desire of the young generation for the material cannot resist the lure of money. The American dream has changed, squeezed out of the desireand money, distorted, more and more people it is precisely because it carries so distortedAmerican Dream, which towards the fate of the tragedy.I interpret the outcome of the tragic fate of the hero of the Dreiser three works-"SisterCarrie" Jennie Gerhardt "" An American Tragedy "from the capitalist system, destiny andhuman desire to explore the hero of the tragedy. The hero broken American Dream and thecapitalist system and to explore how to contact individual broken dreams will lead to thetragedy of the society as a whole. Context of the specific text analysis of deep-seatedreasons for crushing the American dream-the capitalist system fabricated of equality lies,and this equality is the de facto inequality, people happy to think that success, but foundalready failed. The American dream is no longer a dream of hope by the people’s mindsfrom the inescapable nightmare for everyone.