Wirt Sike's Dreams, Among The Poor Girl, And Among The Poor Girls

Everyone has their own interpretation of the “American Dream” but no one can truly defend it unless they have experienced, Base on the three short stories “America and I” by Anzia Yezierska, “Among the poor girls” by Wirt Sikes, and “Eyewitness at the triangle” by William Shepard. But what is an “American Dream” it could mean anything, the general definition is an image of a dream for U.S citizen should have an equal right or opportunities to achieve great success and prosperity. It just doesn't exist for everyone because there are still homeless people on the street or people who are working very hard get very little pay so it's just a shadow. The American dream does not exist because people who work hard all the time and still

According to Sikes “let us slip down these stairs into the basement. This is the workroom. Faugh, how it smells! There is no attempt at ventilation. The room is crowded with girls and women, most of whom are pale and attenuated, and are being robbed of life slowly”. Accordingly, these women work hours and hours in the small basement where they can't breath properly and they in a crowded with girls and women in the room together most of whom are hot and sweating. Furthermore “They bend over their work with aching backs and throbbing brows; sharp pains dart through their eyeballs; they breathe an atmosphere of death. Madame pays her girls four dollars a week. She herself lives in as fine a style as the richest lady she serves.Consequently, all these women are working in the basement where they an uncomfortable their backs a bend over because they don’t have the chairs where you could lean back. Sikes also include “Dark lines had come under her eyes; her complexion was losing its color, she forms its roundness and its springy life. In a word, the poison had entered her system and was killing her by degrees. Still, in her pride, her anxiety to make the "old folks" happy--she had sent home to her father more than one welcome banknote--she concealed her sufferings and struggled on. Moreover, Sikes is describing a girl name Susie L who die working in this type of environment, she was a beautiful

According to Shepard “I reached the building before the alarm was turned in. I saw every feature of the tragedy visible from outside the building. I learned a new sound--a more horrible sound than description can picture. It was the thud of a speeding, living body on a stone sidewalk”.Nevertheless, this person saw with their own eyes watching women trying to escape the fire by jumping out the window. Bodies everywhere a lot of people lost their lives trying to jump from an eight-story window.Others walk from the roof and survive that