The American Dream

Summary:  The really odd book. I will forever remember this book as slightly disturbing.
It's about a married couple. The Wife's mom is staying with then, and is convinced they are sending her away to an old people's home. The couple had a child from adoption services, but killed it, but cutting things off because the child was using it's hands to do something naughty with itself. They called the adoption lady again, and end up getting this older kid, who turns out to be the other kids twin brother. Who could feel nothing, because they were connected and the parents already cut out his brothers heart.
Analysis: The American Dream is a book that shows readers how Americans should not be. The couple in the play obviously are not happy with each other, which we can see right away from the stage directions we have in the play, and they are sitting away from each other, almost like they don't recognize that the other is there. When they go back and talk about their child that they adopted, you can see that really Daddy did it because Mommy wanted one, and Daddy had no backbone of his own, so he couldn't say no. Grandma is an interesting case, some people say she represents the old American dream, where everyone got satisfaction, and were happy with it, where the new guy mommy and daddy get after the first represents the new (where everyone is wanting more and more, and are never happy), coming in and taking over the old America. Over all the book shows people how the old American dream is being pushed out by the New American dream, and it's quite ironic that the new American dream has no emotions or feelings, because of what Mommy and Daddy did during the old American dream's life time. 
Quotes:   "Well, I guess that just about wraps it up.  I mean, for better or worse, this is a comedy, and I don't think we'd better go any further.  No, definitely not.  So, let's leave things as they are right now...while everybody's happy...while everybody's got what he wants...or everybody's got what he thinks he wants.  Good night, dears," Grandma (p.93). 
    "We were identical twins...he and I...not fraternal...identical; we were derived from the same ovum; and in this, in that we were twins not from separate ova but from the same one, we had a kinship such as you cannot imagine.  We...we felt each other breathe...his heartbeats thundered in my temples...mine in his...our stomaches ached and we cried for feeding at the same time...are you old enough to understand?"  Young Man, p. 77.
Theme: The theme of this book is about how the American dream is becoming less and less amazing, the American dream is what is left of Mommy and Daddy's little apartment and their little life. The young man that comes in is showing how the American dream looks perfect on the outside, but on the inside it isn't what anyone wanted.