the American dream. According to the Author‚ the dream of Americans is dead .It is through his narration that the audience comes to terms with how modern values have AuthorLastName3 transformed the American dream’s pure deals into a scheme for gaining materialistic power‚ moreover‚ lack of any sense of morals by the society clearly comes up. Fitzgerald has presented the original aspects of the American dream together with its modern face in his bid to showing how the once impervious dream has vanished
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“The American Dream– That pursuit of a better existence and a higher quality of life through hard work‚ determination and devotion.” This was said by Benjamin Franklin‚ who coined the phrase American Dream. The Great Gatsby‚ by Scott Fitzgerald‚ is an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period of history. The main themes in the novel – hope‚ success‚ ignorance‚ disillusionment‚ wealth‚ and morals‚ reflect this society. Hope is represented by the light across the bay that
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Undefined American Dream: Character Analysis in the Great Gatsby “Gatsby believed in the green light‚ the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then‚ but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster‚ stretch out our arms farther. And one fine morning [...] So we beat on‚ boats against the current‚ borne back ceaselessly into the past.”(172). Nick is the narrator of the novel and analyzes how each character struggles to achieve the American Dream. Gatsby living in the
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Since its publication in 1925‚ F. S. Fitzgerald ‘ s novel The Great Gatsby has becomeone of the most cited‚ criticized and analyzed pieces of fiction in the history of Americanliterature. It has often been depicted as “ perhaps the most striking fictional analysis of the ageof the gang barons and the social conditions that produced them “( Sculley‚ 1965:1088).Without a doubt‚ it is a fantastic representation of an age in American history wheneverything was possible‚ or at least people thought it was
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel‚ however‚ encompasses a much larger‚ less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island‚ New York‚ The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole‚ in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ depicts the roaring1920’s and how society functions under the influence of the American Dream. American society during this period was determined to improve the quality of life in the country and the individual. In “The Great Gatsby”‚ the American Dream is hidden behind a mirage of things including corruption‚ beauty‚ greed‚ and‚ most of all‚ lies. All these factors gave many people a sense of false entitlement in an era when economic and social status were
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The most distinguishable ‘vision’ of America can be translated as the ‘American Dream’. Both Fitzgerald and Miller explored the ideas around this same vision at two different times in american history to examine the success of society and looking into detail of how valid the ‘American Dream’ is. The term itself was first used by James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book‚ The Epic of America. The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States‚ the set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity
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’The Great Gatsby is a novel about the corruption of the American Dream.’ How far would you agree with this statement? The American Dream is fundamentally the idea that anyone in America can accomplish through hard work and can achieve success and happiness. It has been expanded on through the years and now incorporates ideas of attaining freedom‚ wealth and power. In the 1920s when ’The Great Gatsby’ was written the Jazz Age was taking hold and the American Dream became more about material possessions
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Great Gatsby‚ a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald challenges the perception of the American Dream. In “The Great Gatsby”‚ it explicates both the positive and negatives ideas of the American Dream that has been placed within society. This Dream can be described as a tradition held up by society that includes the opportunity for success and prosperity as well as riches. One of the main characters; Jay Gatsby‚ is living that dream. Within the story‚ the reader reads how the American Dream is an idea
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Gatsby’s American Dream In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby‚ lives out the American Dream by cheating‚ lying‚ and using his personal belongings to flaunt as trophies. Gatsby’s main goal is to have Daisy in his life and shows his financial worth in order to achieve this. The American Dream is thought to be freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity. Jay Gatsby takes these ideals and modifies them to how he wants to live them. Gatsby is extremely flashy in his lifestyle just so people believe that he was born
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