The American Dream, Modernist Fiction

America's Dream, Modernist Novel Since the United States became a country, the concept of "American dream" has developed with a changing mind. In the era of modernism, America experienced a period of prosperity and new economic wealth. In the meantime, these factors helped shape the American dream. The American behavior at the time and the fictitious work at this time reflected the ideals of these Americans. The biggest feature of American dreams in modernism era is that it flows upwards and Americans improve themselves.

Modernist literature is an English-based English text that was in fashion from the 1910's to the 1960's. Modern literature began to play a role as a result of industrialization and globalization. New technology and the fears of the two world wars (especially the First World War) cast doubt on the future of mankind. What has become of the world? The writer replied to this question by turning the modern feelings. The romantic era has always focused on nature and existence. The novel of modernism talks about inner self and consciousness. Modernist writers have not made progress, but I have seen the decline of civilization. Modernist writers did not adopt new technology, but witnessed an increase in cold machinery and capitalism, they alienated individuals and led to loneliness. (Although it seems to have heard the same argument in the Internet age, is not it?)

In order to see American writers confess pornography, people need to wait for Henry Miller 's "wild" autobiography. Between Whitman and Miller, modernist writers do not believe Adams' appreciation. American modernist literature avoids the healthy performance of sexual desire. In his famous American novel "Love and Death", Leslie Federer talks about "(xi)" American novelists neglect to deal with adult heterosexual love ". Nevertheless, he admits that the novel by Hemingway is "very addicted to descriptive behavior, which is a symbolic center of his work, but there is no woman in his book Either way, he succeeded in making him a human being, so later it was a comic unintentionally. (304)

The modernist American novel is full of disillusionment and loss. This emotion may be concentrated on a particular individual, or it may be directed to American society or general civilization. It may produce a destructive impulse of nihilism, or it may represent hope for the prospect of change. Eugene O'Neill was the most important American playwright of this era. A long day of his night's journey (which was written between 1939 and 1941 and executed in 1956) started in the 1920s and was the creative climax of the 1920s crossing the horizon, and the ice cream Man (Executed in 1946 written in 1939)