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Do Tennessee Williams and F Scott Fitzgerald celebrate or condemn the American Way?
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Do Tennessee Williams and F Scott Fitzgerald celebrate or condemn the American Way? According to the Americans, the American Way is an ideal way of living. It is free of the persecution and prejudice that the Pilgrim Fathers fled from in the seventeenth century. They escaped to America absconding religious persecution. They were Puritans, and so believed themselves to be "God's chosen people". This became a self-fulfilling prophecy, which lead them to aspire to build an ideal society, which would become an aspiration to other nations. The American Way meant that members of the American society would live in a meritocracy, were people work hard, competitively, honestly and in a spirit of Christian decency. " Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the Golden...
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