My proposed topic is the evolution, or lack thereof, of the American Dream from 1900 to 2000. I realize that the American Dream will be difficult to define and that the topic needs to be narrowed down. There are many demographics in each decade, or year for that matter, that will define their goals and ambitions in different ways with different desired outcomes. I am thinking about analyzing immigrants or the lower class but, at the same time, I don't want to limit myself just yet. I think I'll wait and see what information and readings I can come up with first.
Which brings me to my reading list at this point:
Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin Alice Echols
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
A non-fiction work on the titanic
The Century Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Which I plan on leaving in the living room on Warren C for everyone to use)
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Mary! So I don't have anything very constructive to say, and we may have already talked about this at the retreat..but if you wanted to focus on let's say the "lower class" and the American dream, I don't think it'd be all that "limiting" because these two concepts are almost implicitly linked. I guess I'm thinking Great Gatsby and how it was just as much a social commentary on the juxtaposition of the rich and the poor (the rich getting richer as the poor gets poorer, as it was an explication and defining of "the american dream."
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