Abstract
To begin with, the author's purpose was certainly to show us the life of an immigrant in America. Thanks to their influence all over the world, the USA is very attractive to immigrants who are looking for employment. The USA represents for immigrants, prosperity and success. This conception is confirmed by the name of the main protagonist. She is named America by her poor parents who may have called her that because the US were for them a sort of Promised Land, a land of plenty where they hoped she would one day make a decent life. She fulfils this destiny, and moves to the USA in order to get work. She is seeking a job that will enable her to feed and shelter her baby. In all Northern American films and TV, immigrants are depicted as thinking that everyone can be professionally successful in the USA. People are convicted that the USA is the only place to get work and subsequently money. This then is the motive of America in coming to the USA. She has experienced that it's difficult to obtain a job because she is a single woman, but still harbors faith in the American dream.
