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The statement “embedded in every major play written by an American playwright is a

Critique of American society� is valid for both American Buffalo and Burried Child. While in American Buffalo, effects of materialism and capitalism are clearly seen, Burried Child differently is a metaphorical one containing Americans’ sins they buried, like Vietnam War , slavery, genocide of Native Americans, atom bomb.But when we search the reasons of these sins, we come across the same thing, capitalism.
In American Buffalo, Mamet is approaching to the immoralities of the American society which are caused by business, capitalism and materialism. He chooses the business as the main theme of the play to show his criticism. Business in America is still controlled by “American Dream.� Because of this, characters in the play are depicted in the way that they are affected badly by the concept of “strive and succeed� and they are victims of capitalist and materialistic world of......

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