SOURCE: Callahan, John F. “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving American Dream: The ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ in Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and The Last Tycoon.” Twentieth Century Literature 42 (fall 1996): 374-95.
In the following essay, Callahan examines various manifestations of the idea of the American dream as it evolved in three Fitzgerald novels.
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