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A 5 page paper which considers how these novels show whether or not the promise of the American Dream, that personal happiness in the form of material success through hard work, is being kept. Specifically discussed is how each novel specifically defines the dream, and how the characters define themselves in relation to it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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defines the dream, and how the characters define themselves in relation to it. Bibliography lists 3 sources. TGgattif.rtf The Great Gatsby and Breakfast at Tiffanys: Two Critiques
of the American Dream by Tracy Gregory, August 2001 -- properly!
One of the constants in Americas cultural and historical landscape has been the insistence on what has been described as the American Dream. It is the promise
that personal happiness, i.e., material success, can be enjoyed by anyone willing to put for the effort through hard work. The American Dream does not discriminate; it is available
to everyone who is willing to put for the work necessary to achieve it. In a capitalist society like America, the lure of this Dream is powerful, and where
everything seems to have a price tag, it would follow that happiness does, too. While times have changed, the concept of the American Dream has not. It
meant the same in the 1920s as it did in the 1950s, as illustrated in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1926 novel, The Great Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys,
first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive property of the wealthy, and not attainable by someone who is merely "average." In order to
grab a piece of the American Dream for themselves, characters were forced to change everything about themselves, their names, their addresses, their personalities. It was as if these people,
deep down, feared that the dream might only be an illusion, so they would have to be transformed into an idealized version of themselves in order to make the dream
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