It is important to read and study american novels because of the lessons and history you learn from them. By being written by americans their dreams and lessons are apparent when read through all of the literary lenses. In many of the books we read they prove to show us different aspects of the american way and the american dream in all of its journey and some achieving it and others failing from the beginning. In the Scarlet letter, Hester is a lowly peasant woman pitted against society, she wears a letter of shame. She teaches us the meaning of true love at any cost. She loves a man that she could not claim as her husband being ridiculed by all, showing us the different lessons that still remain rooted in the american society. In the Great