![]() ![]() The American Dream, graciously unnamed, wafts through My Ántonia, the novel of immigrants reaping lives from stark early-20th century Nebraska. For we children of immigrants’ children, our doubts of the Dream multiply the further we travel from our first roots here-in irony fit for a novel, assimilation and success seem to dilute the convictions of the immigrant forebears who set both in motion. Some of our stories make the Dream into an elegiac myth, while others despise it as a lying trap. We often suspect the American Dream more the farther we progress into our future, the land that will someday be our own history. Image courtesy of the Willa Cather Center. “Prairie Perspectives” by Ki Doolittle Slaymaker. ![]()
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