Object of the Study
example language, landscaping, architecture, kinship, marriage customs, fashion, furniture, and politics 2011:169
According to Levi-Strauss, in structuralism the base of interpretation is the common interpretive language of a certain generation that is made of signs and symbols
and in which the members of that language community share. Depending on their backgrounds and viewpoints, two certain readers may react differently to a same literary
text. Although the revised text produced by a structuralist analyst is not as genuine as that of the original writer, in the examination of the new culture it is the analyst who
holds the primary position. What the author has created as concept, the structuralist critic deals with as sign, and he reads the text as a cultural production that is
manufactured according to various perceptions, routines, and traditions of that culture. Structuralism is an intrinsic reading that is free from subjectivity. And the structuralist
critic searches in the text for order and coherence and meaning, while the goal is to provide an objective criticism of the text. Structuralists transverses barriers of time and
interest and tries not to be trapped by their prejudices and partialities. Yet, the text leads them to topics or the culturally-constructed sites of meaning that underlay the ways we
think and talk about the things of our culture. 2013:288 Through this approach, the writer rereads, rethinks, and restudies all literary
works and to equate them with the pattern in society relating to the social phenomena, which is various perceptions, routines and traditions of the culture. Therefore this study
focuses on the social phenomena especially the pattern of the society in America, which is to find the material prosperity, wealth, success, and happiness. Those are the idea of
the American Dream that is revealed through the symbol.