The trilogy which spans the first several of the decades about the US and the culture along his life he has encountered. The book is very disconnected in the sense that the many characters Passos reveals through the camera eye and the newsreel are – static – they don’t have a relationship with each other and it is like reading many articles. His writing was experimental at it’s time so this is one reason why it almost feels like a work in progress for a bigger outcome.
Overall the culture of the American dream is totally flipped on its side through the detailed captured moments of history of people’s lives, again the static feeling that is not going anywhere…..and just informing you. The experience of the American Dream is the underlying issue for most of the newsreels. The dream is unsuccessful through the depiction of the characters normal everyday life the sadness, tragedy and happiness, they were maybe full of ideas which never really emulated to anything neither did they for fill the ideology of the American Dream.
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