HUMANITIES

Humanities

Humanities

“The Lost Beautifulness” by Anzia Yezierska, “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes and “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg portray the theme of American dream and the ideals of material wealth and lifestyle.

In the context of history and in the context of all above poems I will say that continuing economic growth during the early twentieth century reinforced the association between masculinity and the American Dream. In 1928, Herbert Hoover would win the presidency with assurances that American business culture fostered and rewarded “rugged individualism.” The Great Depression of the 1930s tested the belief that ambition, hard work, ...