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The American Dream: Promise, Illusion, or Ideological Myth? (Episode 6)

In Episode 6, I explore a question that feels both historical and urgently contemporary: What is the American Dream — and is it over? Through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, I reflect on how the American Dream was shaped, performed, and ultimately destabilized in the modernist period. The novel does not simply celebrate ambition and success; it reveals the tensions between desire, wealth, illusion, and moral emptiness in post–World War I America. I also briefly share insights from a book chapter I am currently developing, where I approach The Great Gatsby as a modernist rupture, a moment when a national myth begins to fracture. This episode is not about giving definitive answers. It is about asking better questions: Who was the Dream really available to? What does success conceal? And how does literature help us rethink national narratives? I will be taking a short one-week break to attend a conference in Madrid on Edgar Allan Poe and the Gothic, and I look forward to sharing that experience in a future episode. Thank you for thinking along with me.