Compare the ways in which at least two of the works you have studied explore the tension between the desires of the individual and the constraints of their social or cultural environment.
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Both The Great Gatsby and A Doll’s House explore the conflict between private desire and public constraint, but they imagine that conflict very differently. In Fitzgerald’s Modernist novel, individual desire is bound up with romantic fulfilment, self-invention and the fantasy of transcending class; yet these desire