MORALITY OF COMMERCE AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

paragraph 1- joe as a microcosm for the morally corrupt materialist bourgeois older generation and that the business validates all his actions, because it was for his family

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1. “for you, a business, for you!”

2. “because what the hell did i work for?”

3. “must you be inspired?”

4. “you wanted money, so i made money.”

5. “i should’ve put him out when he was ten like i was put out, and make him earn his keep. then he’d know how a buck is made in this world.

CONTEXT

keller experienced the great depression

war profiteering- profited from economic boom of WW2 (35% growth in GDP)

paragraph 2- chris representing a younger generation of idealists

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paragraph 3- society’s and how miller critiques capitalism (marxist lens)

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CONTEXT

neighbours as greek chorus , and social stereotypes portrayed through them.

“there was a load of hanky panky going on and no one did anything” - secondary quotation (Miller)