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Humanities Symposium 2020: "The American Dream": Fiction: Steinbeck & Fitzgerald

April 7-9, 2020 at HACC Lancaster Campus

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream

Provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream. Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity, and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures.