People
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy shared hopes.
— Greil Marcus
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This says that failure in America, whether in romance or business, is never just a personal setback. It carries the sense of betraying a bundle of dreams many people quietly share, so each individual loss feels larger and more collective than it looks.
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