Dismembering the American Dream Quotes

“[Richard] Yates indicates how people of both genders take refuge in self-aggrandizing fantasies and demonstrates how the aspirations of his characters are not only indicative of a human tendency to mythologize and exaggerate but also represent something far more dangerous. It is the refusal to see things as they are that implicitly prevents them from ever living fulfilled lives.”
― Kate Charlton-Jones, Dismembering the American Dream: The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates

“[Richard Yates's] purpose was not to campaign but to illustrate, not to fabricate but to depict, and within all his fiction he never lets his mind wander from the uncomfortable facts of life as he led it and as he witnessed it.”
― Kate Charlton-Jones, Dismembering the American Dream: The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates