Less is More: the poverty in wealth

Cordella Macuno
7 min readApr 26, 2021

F.Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, and Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris’ 2006 film The Little Miss Sunshine defines the respective journeys of the woes of the pursuit of the mythical American Dream.

Gatsby — still alone in a room full of people even after attaining his ‘dream’ girl.

Bernie Sanders in his 2016 election campaign asserted to a crowd of betrayed Americans, “For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare. It is this brutal realization that plagues the…

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Cordella Macuno

Passionate about writing (both fiction and opinion pieces) and in-depth analysis of everything she enjoys.