The Melting Pot Analysis

Tension of Immigration “God is making the American.” In Israel Zangwill’s The Melting Pot, America is concerned as the new world. Zangwill wrote the play in the early nineteen hundreds when immigration to the Americas was sufficiently increasing. Many Americans were against the idea of so many different people entering ‘their’ country; while immigrants saw the Americas as a place to which they had spent their whole lives coming. In The Melting Pot, immigration causes a rift in those residing in America. David welcomes immigration into his life. When David first enters the play he is heard singing, “My Country is of Thee,” even though he is an immigrant. He expresses his acceptance of the American culture by singing a song of America.