... . He did not know that it was 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 for untarnished happiness and for the freedom or opportunity to follow their own desires. The two central characters ... his products. Willy tries to be "well-liked- to business executives also. First he establishes an affair with The Woman who is a secretary for a buyer, h...

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