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cord-335065-fv122304	Cain, William E.	American Dreaming: Really Reading The Great Gatsby	2020-09-02		.txt	text/plain	16178	831	72	When we really read The Great Gatsby, we perceive and understand the American dimension of the novel and appreciate, too, the global range and relevance that in it Fitzgerald has achieved. Nick says about the very rich American Dreamer Gatsby: "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you'. Hendren observes: "It just speaks to this kind of question: To what extent are we a country where kids have a notion of the American dream?" (Bloomberg Business Week, March 20, 2019; see also John Jerrim and Lindsey Macmillan, "Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key?," Social Forces, December 2015). For there is in The Great Gatsby a vision that exceeds money, inequality, and the American Dream. When we read The Great Gatsby, we inevitably think (as Fitzgerald wants us to) about the American Dream-what it was and is, and whether, if we are losing this Dream, we might restore it in this twenty-first century riven by income inequality.	./cache/cord-335065-fv122304.txt	./txt/cord-335065-fv122304.txt