The Broken Dream : The Failure of the American Dream in The Grapes of Wrath from a Caste and Class perspective

The Broken Dream : The Failure of the American Dream in The Grapes of Wrath from a Caste and Class perspective

The paper aims to investigate the failure of the American Dream in the novel The Grapes of Wrath and the factors that affect it. Thus, the thesis of the paper is that it is the classes and castes of Californian that prevent the Joad family from fulfilling the American Dream. The thesis will be discu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johansson, Therése
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL 2010
Subjects:
John Steinbeck
The American Dream
The Joad Family
Social classes
Freedom
Equality
Individualism
Family
Ideal Home.
General Literature Studies
Litteraturvetenskap
Specific Languages
Studier av enskilda språk
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