"Gatsby, the "mythic" embodiment of the American Dream, is shown to us in all his immature romanticism. ... Gatsby shows the reader his immature signs of romanticism by thinking that Daisy would wait for him to come back. ...

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John Cougar Mellencamp is an extremely famous and rich all-American singer who grew up in a small town; surely he achieved the American Dream. Mellencamp sang in the song "Small Town" (released in 1985), "No I cannot forget where it is I come from." Mellencamp expresses that even though he has a lot...

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