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What is the American Dream? What could possibly bind millions of people together, transcend generations and shape every American's life?

Is it the idea of progress? Of bettering oneself? What does the American Dream really look like?

Through three texts from the semester we interpreted what the reality of the American Dream looked like to three individuals, as represented either in their lives or portrayed in their publications. Were they pursuing the American Dream? And what did that pursuit cost them?

Melville Hawthorne Poe