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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of the American identity. The perspectives of various writers such as Anthony Burgess, Alice Walker, and F. Scott Fitzgerald are considered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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world economically speaking, into a nation that is common regarded as fearful, suspicious, bigoted, divisive, and on the verge of financial collapse. Many contemporary writers and thinkers seem to suggest
that the devolution of the American identity is a recent phenomenon, occurring in response to the decidedly violent foreign policy course the country has embarked upon since 2001, and to
the recent collapse of the housing and banking industries. However, an analysis of the countrys art and literature suggests that the problem may not be so transient and contemporary as
thinking would suggest. In fact, by analyzing works such as Anthony Burgess "Is America Falling Apart?", Alice Walkers "The Color Purple", and F. Scott Fitzgeralds "The Great Gatsby", it becomes
apparent that the American identity has always been infused with problematic elements such as a willingness to commoditize children and education, a willingness to repress women, and the establishment of
social and material barriers to opportunity. This understanding can yield great insights into the contemporary state of malaise. To begin understanding the long-standing problems inherent in the American identity and
how these problems have been documented by artists and writers commenting on the state of the country, it is instructive to look first at social treatises such as Anthony Burgess,
"Is America Falling Apart?". This essay was written by Burgess after spending considerable time in America, and then travelling throughout Europe, and consists primarily of his observations on the fundamental
sociological and philosophical differences between the two. These observations are centered primarily on the materialist and consumerist tendencies of American society as compared to Europe. Burgess states that the material
possessions by which Americans tend to judge their success, and to which they devote their entire lives, would be considered gratuitous luxuries to the majority of Europeans. The relative material
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