![]() ![]() Sarah Goldfarb is, as her character describes in the book, a lonely old woman whose ultimate dream is to lose enough weight so she can appear on a television in the dress she wore when she was younger and happier at Harry’s Bar Mitzvah. ![]() ![]() The story, set in Brooklyn’s Coney Island, follows the paralleled stories of Sarah Goldfarb, a widowed mother, and her son Harry, a heroin addict, as they each go down their own path in search for better lives, without seeing their own undoing that eventually stray them from their goal. This success is defined by hard work, risk taking, and self-sacrifice, rather than one’s luck or chance. ![]() The American Dream by definition is the ideal by which any person has equal opportunity available to them as any American to achieve their highest aspirations while living in the United States through hard work and dedication, regardless of their social class or status when they were born. The book Requiem for a Dream, written by Hubert Selby Jr., was published in 1978 and is, in many critics’ opinions, Selby’s most extreme yet sincere illustration of the American Dream or in this case the failure to complete it. ![]()
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