... deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. However, these protagonists are perceived very differently as a result of the different narrative perspectives in the respective books. Despite their apparent contrasting nature, both narratives observe a certain form of distance, with the narrator in the Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, being a peripheral one and the narration of Of Mice ... simply doing his job of narrating the story as it has been set, and thus it is not set up for shock or surprise. The narrative style of the two books a...

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... , the Joad's had already suffered, and because they had a definite purpose in their minds, one from which it was impossible to shake them from, they went on. Some of the books found in the "Literary Canon" are not exactly famous with teenagers or high school students, but The Grapes of Wrath does not present itself in this way. It includes a complex ... ...

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