To a great extent the American Dream consists of the dreams of one generation for the next. But in the period we're dealing with a resistance to this process begins to emerge, as the younger generation begins to receive the dream as a nightmare. Using Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, American Pastoral, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catcher, tell me what this nightmare is. Analyze it, the way you might any dream. What are its major symbols? What do they mean? What is the unconscious of America trying to tell the America's consciousness and conscience?