Camilla's+Views+on+the+American+Dream

__The American Dream__

**The perceived singular American dream:** http://www.foxbusiness.com/fb/staticassets/images/stories/picket_fence_house.jpg

Cinderella By: Anne Sexton //You always read about it: // //The plumber with twelve children// //Who wins the Irish Sweepstakes// //From toilets to riches.// //That story.// //Or the nursemaid,// //Some luscious sweet from Denmark// //Who captures the oldest son's heart.// //From diapers to Dior.// //That story.// //Or a milkman who serves the wealthy,// //Eggs, cream, butter, yogurt, milk,// //The white truck like an ambulance// //Who goes into real estate// //And makes a pile.// //From homogenized to martinis at lunch.// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//Or the charwoman// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//Who is on the bus when it cracks up// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//And collets enough from the insurance.// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//From mops to Bonwit Teller.// //That story.//

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 * But really there is so much more than that...**

"I don't want realism. I want magic!" (Williams, 145)

"Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees- he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." (Fitzgerald, 177)

"We had hard times here. Course it'll all be different, out there- plenty work an' ever'thing nice and green, and little white houses an' oranges growin' aroun'." (Steinbeck, 148)

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning-" (Fitzgerald, 180)

"I'll be ever'where- wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'- I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know suppers ready." (Steinbeck, 419)

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