Early in Americas history when the young country was first growing up there was a great dream circulating around through everyone in America. When the dream first started it was about liberty, freedom, and equality among all people in the U.S, no matter how rich or how poor, however this did not last. As time went on less and less people cared about liberty and freedom and began to take advantage. Much of this was taking place during the 1920's, or "The roaring twenties". There were a few people in the U.S who still believed in freedom and equality but most people had lost hope. Everything could be bought even people, the life of freedom and liberty changed drastically to a life of the nicest cars, the most money, and the most extravagant trips, life had taken a turn, a turn for the worst.

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Myrtles hopes and dreams were to be someone that she never could be a upper class woman, and of course what she wants to experience is the American dream, the nice cars the huge amounts of money and the long exotic trips around the world. Unfortunately, the beliefs that occurred in this time period were that once you were born in to a lower position in life you stayed in that class for the rest of your life and no matter what you did you couldn't get out of it.

Myrtle eventually made her way in to what she thought was the upper class but in reality she was still in the exact same place she started from. In her eyes her wealth had grown and the lifestyle she was used to had gone up. In her eyes she was gaining rank but in the eyes of the actual elite she was just some little lower class fling. The women of the upper class were far above sex in their relationships, hence the reason that most of the upper class man actually had mistresses was because when an upper class woman lowered herself to sex it was frowned upon so the men needed a lower class woman to do something that was considered lower class, and Myrtle was basically a sex icon, a woman that had a "perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering".

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