EXAMINING THE MANIFEST AMERICAN DREAM ENGLISH LITERATURE ESSAY   pt3    1000w

You wanted Miss America? Well, you’ve got her, with a vengeance-she’s your daughter? You wanted to be a real American jock, a real American marine, a real American hotshot with a beautiful Gentile babe on your arm? You longed to belong like everybody else to the United States of America? Well, you do now, big boy, thanks to your daughter. The reality of this place is right up your kisser now. With the help of your daughter you’re as deep in the shit as a man can get, the real American crazy shit. America amok! America amuck! [13]

Jerry’s systematic speech truly highlights not only to his brother what America is, but also to the reader. He proves that while the American Dream is the ultimate manifestation of America itself, that America is itself rotten to the core and that there are undesirable elements within its citizens. His brothers realisation and exclamation that, ‘This is terrible. Horrible” delights Jerry, ‘Now you’re getting it. Right! My brother is developing the beginning of a point of view. A point of view of his own instead of