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美国文学中有一个反复出现的主题:美国梦。“美国梦”给美国文学提供了最新颖、最激动人心的题材,这个永恒的主题充斥着美国文学各个时期的作品。在不同历史时期,美国文学中的美国梦有着不同的表现,如殖民时期的开拓致富梦、建国后的自由民主梦、内战后的扩张发迹梦,而到一战后传统美国梦开始出现迷茫与失落,二战后则走向了绝望与反叛。它从最初的希望乐观到后来的怀疑忧虑再到最后的幻灭批判。在讨论美国梦产生的基础上,分析了不同时期的美国文学中的美国梦:美国梦的实现、美国梦的扭曲以及美国梦的幻灭。
American literature has a recurring theme: the American dream. The American Dream provides the most innovative and exciting theme to American literature. This eternal theme is filled with works from different periods of American literature. In different historical periods, the American dreams in American literature have different manifestations, such as the dream of pioneering and prospering during the colonial era, the dream of free and democratic democracy after the founding of the People’s Republic, and the expansion after the Civil War. However, after the First World War, the traditional American dream started to appear confused Lost, after World War II is desperate and rebellious. It is optimistic from the initial hope to later doubts and anxieties to the final disillusionment criticism. On the basis of discussing the American dream generation, it analyzes the American dreams in American literature of different periods: the realization of the American dream, the distortion of the American dream and the disillusionment of the American dream.