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However, this belief produced many victims who either failed or did not manage to find happiness this way, to whom this whole idea of American Dream proved to be an illusion. F.S. Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and "Martin Eden" by Jack London are widely known for dealing with the American Dream with their title heroes as the victims of it. In my opinion, it was not exactly the case. They both had very much in common and what they really dreamed of was not financial or material success - their final goal was in both cases a woman.