Raiffa Syamil Assignment 1

“Sinclair Lewis’s name comes up, and Kay Boyle’s, and then Fitzgerald’s.” All writers who were important to the American Dream “movement”. They criticized the state of America and what the American Dream really meant with The Jungle, The Great Gatsby, and stuff that Boyle wrote but I am way less familiar with her than the other two.

“They disagree about the American Dream”

Putting this line after mentioning influential authors during that era puts their conversation into more context. It gives you more of an insight of the type of people her Ludvigson’s parents are and what they had to say. Also the “american dream” they allude to in this line could connect back to the American Dream as imagined by those 3 authors. And disagreeing with it, it adds to that air of hopefulness she instills in her parents throughout the poem.