By Jessica Schweke
To discover a compatible definition of the yankee Dream I in general orientated my research round the works of America’s founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in addition to Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, John Winthrop and James Truslow Adams. according to those texts I transferred those elements at the performs via Williams and Miller and looked for adjustments and similarities. the subsequent textual content will for this reason be anxious to begin with with a definition of the time period ‘American Dream’ and the conversion of those notions within the characters Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ drama A Streetcar Named wish and in Willy Loman in addition to his sons Biff and satisfied in Arthur Miller’s play demise of a Salesman.
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