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The Importance of Ambition: The American Dream in Literature (Part 3)

The Importance of Ambition: The American Dream in Literature (Part 3) By Jill Allyn Stafford If you’re unemployed or stuck in a dead-end job, there’s a lot to be found in the classics. What do you want from life? And how can you get there? If we are able for a moment to glance past all the clichéd rich and famous drivel, for many the precise meaning of “American Dream” is a vague one seen as an inevitably difficult to define concept. But as is inescapably exposed in Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman , F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great [...]
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