... rags to riches, of amassing a great fortune that will assure a life of luxuriant ease, power, and beauty in an ideal world untroubled by care and devoted to everlasting pleasure with nothing to intervene between wish and fulfillment (70)." In my essay I bring into discussion issues arising from ... the pursuit of this dream by examining the lives of the protagonists of two important American literatures: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The protagonists of ... class dominate the lower, and where cruel, duplicitous and unfeeling men like Tom,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate