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American Dreram. American Dream Throughout society people always have one
focus to motivate them to do well. That is to live a live ...
Submitted by Pratti01 on November 15, 2005
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American Dream
Throughout society people always have one focus to motivate them to do well. That is to live a live that is absent from poverty and to live happily. To prosper and succeed, rather then to beg and fail. In reading Maggie a girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, Maggie would have to be the one that stands out most for this attempt. She strives to do what she can to get out of that house. For her it is finding some one that will love her and that will support her, so that she can reside outside of the Johnson's house. When Maggie begins to works for a sweat shop she uses her pay for fine dresses, in return she will then be cherished and loved. She meets her brother friend Jimmie and begins to go on dates with him. He takes her to fine plays and museums, showing Maggie the fine side of society.
During the plays that Pete takes her to, the ending tends to shadow Maggie and her take on the living the American Dream. The hero is always poor in the play and then comes to overtake the rich and at the end is then rich. Maggie after the plays is always happier and just imagines herself in those particular shoes. Maggie exclaims how "the way in which the poor and virtuous and eventually surmounted the wealthy and wicked" To go from being poor and having nothing, to being rich, and having everything at your finger tips. This is actually probably pretty popular in action that the poor would probably do after watching a play like the one that was performed. During her imagination you can see her passion to live a better life that is full of prosperity. Unfortunately Maggie cannot live out this imagination but has to come back to her life of striving for better.
Over the course of the book, Maggie focuses all her life on living a better live and making decision that will get her there. If she can find a man that is well off to support her then she will be able to live a well life. For example when she meets Pete...
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