Summary of Laurence Shames The More Factor
The main focus of Laurence Shames "The More Factor" is that America has longed for more of everything to the point that the idea of success is on the forefront of our minds. ... Shames did a good job of depicting various periods when these ideals were evident in our history. ... Shames claims that "the economy [in America] has been the frontier" (36). ... It has always been assumed, as Shames puts it, "that America would keep on booming" (32). ... Shames stresses that it all has to end somewhere. ... A time of business-suit-clad men driving their BMWs to their beach houses, as Shames describes. ... Shames describes it as being "in the melancholy position of wrestling with a two-hundred-year dependency on a drug that was now in short supply" (37). ... Focusing on different, more personable frontiers or goals is one of Shames main points in this essay.