Publisher's Synopsis
Holly Martins. Harry Lime. Each is a half of the American Dream. But who are the gods inside of the American Dream? Which archetypes are at work? How many of them are there, and in what combination? "THE THIRD MAN: The American Dream Returns to Europe" sends the Archetypal Eye into one of history's greatest films to examine the Dream's birth in the pursuit of tomorrow through yesterday, the relationship between the Dream and the Bomb, the mythological physics producing the American Dream's shine, and sites Holly and Harry within a genealogy of the Dream's most memorable characters-from Sethe to Huck to Ahab to Gatsby to O. J. Simpson-to create an archetypal portrait of the American psyche forever in pursuit of the American Dream.
