n her book Driving After Class, Rachel Heiman gives a detailed account of everyday life in the late 1990s in a New Jersey suburb outside of New York City. The suburb, which she fictionally names “Danboro”, was a farming community until the mid-1960s when “white flight émigrés” began to arrive from NYC, mainly from Brooklyn. How do the experiences of the residents of Danboro reflect Americans’ current common sense understandings of the American Dream? What are some of the shortcomings of our contemporary common sense about what constitutes success in American society? In what ways do the experiences of the people of Danboro reveal these shortcomings?
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