Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Dream Deconstructed


The story of the American Gangster has been often referred to as an "inverse Horatio Alger story," and also a "dark double" of the American Dream. The Gangsters, as portrayed by Cagney, Robinson, and Muni, represent men who share the definitively American drive for success but for means attaining wealth have been shut off. 

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