Reading path · The American Dream

The American Dream and Its Price

A green light, a few acres of land, a salesman at the end of the road — the promise the country could not keep.

4 stops · 2 to read on StoryBites · the rest to explore in the wider world
  1. 1 StoryBites Edition The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The dream as a green light — reinvention chasing a love that is really the past. Read →
  2. 2 StoryBites Edition Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The dream shrunk to a small farm, dreamed by men who will never be allowed to reach it. Read →
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    Beyond the shelf · Drama Death of a Salesman The dream at the end of a life — a salesman who was sold the wrong story about success.
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    Beyond the shelf · History The Gilded Age Where the American Dream and its deep inequalities were forged together.