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The 16 pages that link to The American Dream, each with the reason it gives.

• Social mobilityRelated: Belief in upward mobility is central to this ideal, while unequal chances complicate it.

• American exceptionalismRelated: It translates national distinctiveness into a promise about individual opportunity.

• Frank CapraRelated: Capra’s stories both celebrate this promise and expose its vulnerability to greed.

• Paris HiltonRelated: Hilton’s inherited wealth complicates narratives that treat fame and success as self-made.

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayRelated: The cousins seek success and freedom, while the novel tests the price of both.

• Johnny B. GoodeRelated: Johnny’s imagined ascent expresses this ideal through musical talent and public recognition.

• The Adventures of Augie MarchRelated: Augie’s ambitions expose the freedom and instability promised by self-invention.

• Horatio AlgerRelated: Alger’s fiction supplied enduring popular images of the dream’s promise of upward mobility.

• Make America Great AgainRelated: Supporters connect the slogan’s promise of national renewal with restoring opportunity and prosperity.

• The Game of LifeRelated: The game frames financial accumulation as a visible measure of a successful life.

• B. C. ForbesRelated: Forbes’s accounts of business achievement often framed success through this ideal.

• Buried ChildRelated: The failed farm exposes the gap between national promise and inherited hardship.

• Harold RobbinsRelated: Robbins repeatedly dramatizes characters pursuing wealth, status, and success.

• Nathanael WestRelated: West repeatedly dismantled the promise of effortless success that underlies this national ideal.