Reflect on the varieties and meanings of work and play in American culture. Look at American literary modernism focusing on representations of work and play and ways that place shapes perception, identity, and literary form. Explore how writers and readers responded to transformations in working conditions and leisure industries as well as to the experiences of urbanization, migration, and dislocation that defined early twentieth-century American modernity. The paper must embody the stated things above in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Manhattan Transfer by Dos Passos, and My Ántonia (Broadview Literary Texts) 1st Edition by Willa Cather. Longer comparative essay. Working with three of our assigned texts, develop an argument about the significance of work or play in early twentieth-century American literature. This essay can build on your short essay and should incorporate some of the research you conducted during the semester. It should be 8-10 pages, double spaced, with all citations and bibliographic entries in MLA style. Be sure to allow time to revise and proofread your work before submitting it. The attached files help define work and play.