American Values

American Values

ENGELSK A – AMERICAN VALUES – ESSAY A. Write an essay (900–1200 words) in which you analyze and interpret Woody Allen's The Rejection.

Focus on the values reflected through the main characters and the values reflected in general in American culture.



Woody Allen was born in 1935, and is an American writer (and a movie director, screenwriter, actor, comedian and playwright) who is born and raised in New York City. Woody Allen's work is very prolific, and he loves writing about the neurotic upper–class life on Manhattan.

The short story The Rejection (written in 2007) is about a successful man, Boris Ivanovich, and his wife Anna, whose son is rejected from "the very best nursery school in Manhattan". Boris and Anna are wealthy and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...I know they're looking for someone to pick up the tab for a new annex" he says.

Boris and Shamsky is talking while eating lunch in a restaurant called Le Cirque, where Boris has been denied access since the news about his sons rejection. Because of that, Boris is at the restaurant in disguise, but gets recognized by a waiter, and then thrown out.

When Boris gets home to his wife Anna, he tells her that they must sell their country house in Amagansett to get the money to buy their way into the nursery school. Anna began to cry, and remembered all the good time her and her family walked through their neighbor's kitchen to get to the ocean to swim and play.

Unfortunately, on the day for Mischa's second interview, his guppy died without any actual reason, and Mischa – because of his sadness – failed the second interview too. Boris and Anna have to move to a shelter for homeless people – they used all their money to "buy" a second interview for their son – and met many other families who had not been able to get their kids to go to the elite–schools.

At the end, Boris tells Anna that he "now believes in something", that he believes that all people, regardless of their wealth, some day will dwell in the City of God, because "Manhattan is definitely getting unlivable."

The main character in The Rejected, Boris Ivanovich, is an extremely upper–class man. He's a man with success, and a man who practically lives his life the way he thinks other people think is the best way.

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