Troubled Boys and Ragged Dick

Explore some of the ways that Susan Fauludi highlights the stark disparity between the daily lives of the Lakewood boys and their dreams of fame and wealth and their dreams of fame and wealth. As expressed in the text, how have these dreams been denied? (Or to use Faludi's title) How have the Lakewood boys been stiffed or had their dreams betrayed? Finally, how do the Lakewood boys' dreams/myths of success differ from the myths of success that were represented in Ragged Dick and "Stephen Cruz"
The essay of Susan Fauludi rises very important problem that a modern man faces these days the degradation of a man who no longer believe in hard work and honesty and seems to be lost in fight for prestige and power. The characters in the Fauludi book are the young men although they themselves and the author keeps call them The Boys. …