American Dream: Myth or Reality
Words: 1416 Pages: 5 7863“The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.” (Nafisi) According to “Paradox and Dream”, by John Steinbeck Americans function in paradoxes and never truly reach satisfaction. We do anything we can do to achieve the American Dream. Similarly, in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick otherwise known as the narrator witnesses firsthand the lengths that a man named Jay Gatsby will go […]