The elusive nature of the American Dream of wealth and social prominence — and its detrimental effect on those who pursue it — has been a frequent concern of American writers since the late nineteenth century. William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), and John Dos Passos' U.S.A. (1937) are just a few of the novels preceding Ten North Frederick that deal with this theme. Like these other writers, O'Hara is deeply sympathetic with those whose dreams are thwarted; from his perspective, the fault lies.....
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