Requiem For A Dream
(Hubert Selby, Jr.)
The American dream has alwaysbeen an obscure one. For Sara Goldfarb, it is to be on television wearing thevery red dress her late husband Seymour adored her in. For her son, Harry, andhis girlfriend, Marion, and best friend, Tyrone, it is to make it big and be financiallyindependent. And all these dreams are achieved by the one way American culturewarns everyone against?drugs. Requiem for a Dream, the novel that the inspiredthe major motion picture, follows the lives of four dreamers during the darkdays of 1970s Brooklyn. It is the psychologicalnovel that gets you into the minds of people who are trying to leave their markon this world, to make a difference in their lives. However, their drugaddictions are the reason for their falling out. Sara turns to diet pills,which her son refers to as ?uppers,? while Harry and his friends become victimsof the drug they decide to push. All is going well, until the diet pills nolonger work for Sara and a heroin drought plagues the streets. Notclosely watching their lives slowly break away, the characters lives go down aspiral of incidents that lead us to the conclusion??there will never be arequiem for the Dream, simply becauseit will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn its passing.? HubertSelby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklynand Song of the Silent Snow,builds from his own demons and addictions. Selby himself was once arrested fordrug possession and the tribulations of his addiction holds true in the novelhe wrote. Requiem for a Dream shouldnot only be read, it should be a warning to us all who do not realize that somedreams aren?t meant to be achieved.
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