Wish fulfillment in the context of D.H Lawrence’s ideas is a world where all ideological concepts and dreams can come to fruition. This is comparable to the reasoning behind creating Hollywood in the early 1900’s. To create fantastical worlds based off the “American Dream”. A dream of becoming the best that you can, a dream where everyone is seen as equal and can become as successful as they wish to be. Commonly, this “dream” state of movies is shown through the relationships between characters, increasingly the “buddy-trope” is used especially in Western style movies. This Western style was first created in the James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pioneers” as a transition between the English historical romance and the American western. In this novel, he paints a picture of a small …show more content…
Often this genre of movie is accompanied by the buddy trope, most often per say in the “Buddy Cop” movies, which in fact are still following the Western format. This buddy trope typically consists of two male characters as the lead, one white man and one man of another race (usually black). This trope was a popular demonstration of the façade that the blacks and the whites get along perfectly and treat each other equally and with equal respect. Although this idea was still just a façade, it was entertaining especially to the American audience. This buddy trope was shown in “The Pioneers” through the use of Natty Bumpo and John Mohegan (Chingachgook), Natty being the white man and Indian John being the man of color in this case. Natty is a woodsman who lives in a cabin with John who used to be a powerful Indian Chief and they both happen to know Fire-Eater, the man who used to own all the land in their area.
In general, throughout the story of “The Pioneers” the characters that are not both white and male are treated with disrespect and unfairly. For example, in Chapter 12 while Oliver