Langston Hughes’s writings invoke the idea of the American Dream. The American Dream was described in 1931 by James Truslow Adams: “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” During a time of demographical changes in American culture, Hughes faces this concept of the American Dream on the suppressed side of American society. These include immigrants, sharecropping farmers, Native Americans, and African Americans. Mr. Hughes depicts equality as simply impossible to attain for these individuals, eclipsed by the forefront of prejudice, poverty, and bigotry. Dreams that are erased in lives determined by the struggle of survival. Aspirations of these individuals are interpreted
