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FICTIONS OF NEW YORK THE CITY AS METAPHOR IN SE...

'New York City as Metaphor in Selected American Texts' tries to capture the picture and meaning
of an ever-changing city which has casted and still casts a spell over people all around the
world. An uncountable number of authors have dedicated their works to New York City because of
their fascination of its diversity and constant change that promises its dwellers a life in
wealth and freedom. Surprisingly  all novels that have been analyzed reveal New York as the
complete opposite of the American Dream that everyone expects when arriving on Ellis Island.
The protagonists have to realize that their dreams will never become fulfilled and 
consequently  become disillusioned and corrupted by their unhealthy environment. John Dos
Passos describes a City that becomes a modern Babylon  it is fragmented and on its way to greed
capitalism and corruption. The New York of Stephen Crane¿s Maggie Johnson and Edith Wharton¿s
Lily Bart is like a gigantic deterministic cage that denies every attempt of escape. Moreover 
the metaphysical novel 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster does not show any sign of the promised
life in wealth and freedom  but rather a city that is split into pieces  ruled by chance and
misunderstandings. The city literally dehumanizes its inhabitants as they are dazzled by its
addictive quality.

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