A Worn Path, 'The Far And The Near'

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People who traveled to or resided in America in 1914 to 1946 tended to have a set dream or desire to pursue in their life. Consequently, many were forced to go through the obstacles before achieving their goal and realizing the difficulty of reaching it. Under the circumstances, writers at that time expressed those difficulties through their works such as “The Turtle,” “A Worn Path,” and “The Far and the Near” to give insight of what was happening. The struggles of the American Dream are presented through the works of the authors from that time.
Both World War I and World War II were obstacles for many Americans due to drafts. In the “The Turtle,” by John Steinbeck, there is a scene where the driver of a light truck directly affects the turtle when he “saw the …show more content…
Phoenix, from “A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty, stated, “My grandson. It was my memory had left me. There I sat and forgot why I made my long trip”(124). As a possible consequence, even if the pursuer were to undergo the hardships and obstacles to reach the American Dream; they are still feasible to dismissing the end goal from their mind. Granted, the person would most likely remember what their goal was sooner of later, though it may take time. “ [H]e knew that all the magic of that bright lost way, the vista of that shining line, the imagined corner of that small good universe of hope’s desire,” thought by the engineer in “The Far and the Near,” by Thomas Wolfe. To put it briefly, the realization that the pursuer’s goal is but an illusion of their making is devastating to that person’s confidence when it comes to struggling to reach the American Dream. Furthermore, this shows that not all dreams or desires are as pleasing as they seem, in which happens more often between a third and first person perspective. The American Dream is not only an external struggle, but an internal as

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