{"id":33671,"date":"2023-09-13T23:49:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/briefly-stated-what-does-america-mean-for-the-women-in-these-stories-and-what-stands-in-their-way-of-them-achieving-their-american-dream\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T23:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:49:27","slug":"briefly-stated-what-does-america-mean-for-the-women-in-these-stories-and-what-stands-in-their-way-of-them-achieving-their-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/briefly-stated-what-does-america-mean-for-the-women-in-these-stories-and-what-stands-in-their-way-of-them-achieving-their-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly stated, what does America mean for the women in these stories, and what stands in their way of them achieving their American dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In your essays you might choose to focus on a particular theme, or even a<br \/>\nparticular passage. Possibilities abound &#8212; the question of cleanliness, for<br \/>\nexample, or education, &#8220;Americanization,&#8221; or anti-immigrant<br \/>\nsentiment. How can we use these documents as a window into the world that<br \/>\nproduced them? What do they suggest to us about the American Dream that drew<br \/>\nimmigrants by the thousands, and the reality that confronted them once they got<br \/>\nhere? What do the stories suggest to us about the place of immigrants in the<br \/>\nsocial structure? Dig beneath the surface of the stories\u2026 What is Yezierska<br \/>\nreally trying to get at here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your essays you might choose to focus on a particular theme, or even a particular passage. Possibilities abound &#8212; the question of cleanliness, for example, or education, &#8220;Americanization,&#8221; or anti-immigrant sentiment. How can we use these documents as a window into the world that produced them? What do they suggest to us about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1103],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=33671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}