American Dream: A Comparative Analysis of Theme and Characters in the Great Gatsby and the Grapes of Wrath

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kinds of interpretations and arguments on the very term ‘American Dream’. The two American novels The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath, written by Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck respectively, make humanity aware of the greatest flaw that happened to the American Dream and show them the right way to achieve it: “try not to become a man success, but rather try to become a man of value”, as Albert Einstein pointed it. Though the American Dream is narrated in the both novelswith its good as well as bad ideals and in the rich and the poor people’s perspectives, they show some common features in many levels.Though the so called ‘Great’ American Dream was conceived differently in the heart of American society, its ultimate aim was corrupted either completely or partly as it could be exemplified from an comparative analysis of the both novels. The each novel was originated and narrated in the different