Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, and European American male success mythology -- Wheatley and her literary daughters : from tragedies to triumphs -- Harriet Jacobs's use of self-image to represent collective self -- "Dis ain't no business proposition. Dis is uh love game" : Zora Neale Hurston's disjunctive conjunctions and European American success myths in Their eyes were watching God -- Celie is short for Cinderella : Alice Walker and American success myths.