Alas I could not find the article I was suppose to read, "Founding Brothers: Kane, Corleone, and the American dream," but I will try to answer the question as best I can. To much avail I can't truely think of any other tragic ends to people who persue the American dream in terms of what these characters have been surrounded in. The idea of wealth and power are things we can look for but some don't get. A pursuit of freedom and wealth I can think of Lenny from Of Mice and Men, he was trying to break free of his poor postion but he could not fit in to the world he wanted to be in because of his mental handicap.
Maybe I can refer to Fear and loathing in Las Vegas; that is Hunter S. Thompson's reason for going to Las Vegas, to find the American dream. He says he does find it at the casino that is a circus. He tells the story of the owner and how he came from being a nobody to owning a very busy casino in Las Vegas; gaining all this power and money, every one comes to Las Vegas for that quick trip to fame and fortune but it rarely happens. The American dream isn't freedom anymore its wealth and power and when you pursue that to hard the end results can only be tragic.
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