The Theme Of "American Dream" Variation In The 20th Century American Literature

“American dream” is a common belief, which is an American traditional values and a sign of national spirit, also be regarded as the essence of American culture. In this paper, from the twentieth century American literature in the evolution process of the "American dream", through analysis Ernest Hemingway and Heller’s representative literary works, discussed under the specific social and historical background characteristics and specific performance, the "American dream" embodied in the literary work of sticking to the variation of the escape this topic and further discusses the "American dream" of the 20 th century American culture reflected in the spirit. This article is divided into the following three chapters:The first chapter: The literature and the variations of the theme of "American dream". The "American dream" presents different themes in different period. In the20 th century respectively presented to explore the dream rich colonial dream after the founding of liberal democracy, the expansion of both before and after the civil war’s dream; In the 20 th century were presented as a "lost generation" of the spirit world adrift, Sir "pleasure-seeking" cultural disillusionment and "beat generation" psychological the absurdity of the world.The second chapter: The variations of Hemingway’s writing theme and the "American dream". Hemingway explored how to transcend pain, loss and loneliness.In the face of nothingness and destruction, he is still strong and full of hope and a representative of the stick to the "American dream", his attitude towards the war by the previous crops to adhere to the Anti-Japanese War, later thought step by step change reflects the war haze of confusion and perplexity, the struggle between man and nature and hope, life and dignity of the eternal.The third chapter: The variations of Heller’s writing theme and the "American dream". Heller shows the works of the absurd in despair, "black humor" mocking the shortcomings of modern American bureaucracy and blasted by it to the destruction of human nature and reveal. In addition, the daily life of express, shows the contemporary material civilization highly developed capitalist society people lackof faith in life and spiritual crisis, the social reality of the absurd and bizarre survival rules, suggesting that the "American dream" escaped.Conclusion: Although the "American dream" alienation or disillusioned, but the core of the "American dream" after the formation of the constantly with the development of The Times and make a new show. Some factors in the "American dream" is the American people motivation, equal opportunities, everyone can get rich through efforts as one element of the American culture spirit infiltration in the ideology of Americans. American literature to the reflection of the "American dream" is the basic consistent with its development, more give play to the role of the spur, the "American dream" has never disappear completely, changeable, just form changed.This chapter on Hemingway and Heller variations of the "American dream" theme in literature, both inside and outside of summary analysis, the "American dream" helped the all-round development of economy, politics, culture in the United States, in a sense to our life has brought some beneficial enlightenment.