... wrote a series of plans for his self-improvement at the back cover of a book titled "Hopalong Cassidy-, then set out to become wealthy and successful. He enrolled in the armed forces then was positioned in Kentucky where Gatsby met Daisy, who is Nick's cousin. Gatsby fell in love ... already behind him."" (Fitzgerald 189). Then, John Steinbeck illustrates the impossibility of the American dream in his novel Of Mice and Men, through the lives of his central characters. Set during the Great Depression era the characters have dreams typically American of this era: dreams ... another farmhan...

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