First of all I will explain what the American dream really is. In this research paper I will analyse the main characters of “Tortilla Flat” and compare them to the American dream.
That is why “Tortilla Flat” provides a good contrast of the proponents and opponents of the American dream. But there are also characters in the book, which believe in the American dream and who strive for wealth and reputation. For them friendship and freedom is more important than wealth and therefore they represent the counterpart of the American dream. The book is about a group of societal marginal figures, which do not have any interest in becoming rich and famous and they take their life as it comes. One of these literary works which deals with the negative aspects of the American dream is “ Tortilla Flat” written by John Steinbeck. Many literary works deal with the positive and negative aspects of the American dream. A lot of settlers and immigrants believed in the American dream but they failed to fulfil their dreams and did not have a better life than before. But the American dream does not only have positive aspects. This is the myth of the selfmade man, the myth of the American dream. A land where you can fulfil your dreams, where you can become rich and famous if you work hard enough for it. Since the discovery of the American continent America is known as the land of opportunity. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 and died in New York in 1968.The American dream is one of the most famous features of the American society. His travel memoir, Travels with Charley, describes his trek across the U.S. He became interested in marine biology and published a nonfiction book, The Sea of Cortez, in 1941. He also wrote several successful films, including Forgotten Village (1941) and Viva Zapata! (1952). Steinbeck’s work after World War II, including Cannery Row and The Pearl, became more sentimental. The novel, about the struggles of an Oklahoma family who lose their farm and become fruit pickers in California, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Steinbeck’s following works, In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men, were both successful and in 1938 his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath was published. The novel’s endearing comic tone captured the public’s imagination, and the novel became a financial success. Tortilla Flat describes the antics of several drifters who share a house in California. His father, a government official in Salinas, gave the couple a house while Steinbeck continued writing. He married in 1930 and moved back to California with his wife. He moved to New York and worked as a manual laborer and journalist while writing his first two novels, which were not successful. Steinbeck, a native Californian, had studied writing intermittently at Stanford between 19 but never graduated.
John Steinbeck’s first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, is published on May 28, 1935.
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