Themes creating the concept of american dream in the novel «The Grapes of Wrath» by John Steinbeck

The article has been devoted to the disclosure of themes creating the concept of the American Dream in the novel «The Grapes of Wrath» by an American writer of the 20th cent. John Steinbeck. The story of the emergence of the concept of the American Dream is briefly given. The paper presents the components of the American Dream concept, represented by various linguists and literary critics. The study presented the authors’ own Model of self-reliant person hierarchy, based on themes that create the concept of the American Dream: «Faith», «Land as a source of identity», «On the road», «Unity» and «Knowledge to transform the world». Each of the themes is analyzed and supported by the corresponding illustrations from the text of the novel