What work of literature best encapsulates the American Dream?

>>9347228
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>>9347228
american psycho

>>9347228
Atlas shrugged i guess

The Great Gatsby

>>9347248
Wait I take that back, Death of a Salesman

Flushing ranch dressing down a dirty toilet

a day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

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Obviously.

Ulysses

>>9347248
seconded

>>9347231
This nigga
The cop conference is the perfect allegory for america

>>9347231
>>9347234
>>9347248
>>9347265
let me re phrase that to be more clear

any books that doesn't suck dick?

>>9347270
Listen nigga it's JR it just is read the wikipedia page if you want to.

>>9347270
>Ulysses
>suck dick
HOLY SHHH (!) WHAT DID YOU SAY YOU ABSOLUTE PLEB?!?!?

>>9347269
yeah if you're fifteen and on the path to being a degenerate drug addict burnout

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look I can make visual representations of what I believe the American Dream to be too

also it's JR, like that other anon is saying. Fucking 10/10 book and exactly the subject matter you're looking for

>>9347277
this

just the movie was even too much for me

>>9347281
that doesn't look like the American Dream desu

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>>9347289
what about this one

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

>>9347304
a little better

(I'm saving it btw)

>>9347270
What the fuck, you are not the original poster, I am.

To clarify, I'm not looking only for books that confirm the American Dream, critiques are good too.

>>9347248
>>9347235
>>9347234
>>9347253
These are pretty good answers, but they're books I've already read/knew about.

>>9347228
Adventures of Augie March, even though nobody cares about Bellow anymore.

>>9347228
American Pastoral

The Day of the Locust

>>9347318
The post wasn't very polite, but don't try to come in my thread and troll.

>>9347318
Liberty by Franzen

they say it sucks though

>>9347270
>>9347339
samefag

It was a short-lived phenomenon, wasn't it? I knew an anomaly like that couldn't last. It was just a fluke. A one-time thing that will never be repeated.

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>>9347316
glad you like it

>>9347265
>a book written by an Irishman living in Europe about Dublin encapsulates the American Dream

>>9347265

Most Americans think eating organ meat is gross and masturbating on the beach is highly illegal.

>>9347253
Worse choice dingus

>>9347228
The Art of the Deal.

>>9347277
>>9347283
If only you two went to high school together maybe you wouldn't have had to sit alone at lunch.

>>9347421
hey bud, I'll give you five shiny dollars to sppend on crack if you come over here and try to say that while you suck me off

>>9347228

Mein Kampf