Can you summarize and paraphrase the following paragraph successfully?
"The theme of metamorphosis recurs throughout the whole chronicle of American biography. Men and women start out in one place and end up in another, never quite knowing how they got there, perpetually expecting the unexpected, drifting across the ocean or the plains until they lodge against a marriage, a land deal, a public office, or a jail." -- Lewis Lapham, from Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-Siecle
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