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American Self-making and Self-Help, Poe's works reflected a darker…

- - - - Jonathan Edwards
        ” The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else,” (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God)
        
        Literary Connection to the Quote: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese writer who wrote a short story called The Spider's Thread. In the story, a robber is sent to hell, but by chance is given a way out. From the heavens descended a spider's thread for the robber to climb up. For sparing a spider's life when the robber was still alive, the Buddha had sent down the thread into hell for the robber to climb. As the robber accends, so do all the other sinners in hell. The thread then snaps, sending all of them, the robber includes, falling back into the depths of hell. (It's a really famous story in Japan, and is referenced in anime.) There are parallels to be drawn between this story and Edwards' quote.
- - - - W.E.B. Du Bois
        ("The Talented 10th")
      - Booker T. Washington
        ("Cast down your bucket")
      - Frederick Winslow Taylor
        ("The Principles of Scientific Management")
      - "Echoes" on Middle Class
        
        F. Scott Fitzgerald
        (Anime Version: Bungo Stray Dogs)
    - - Jacob Riis
        ("How the Other Half Lives")