The Decline of the American Dream Everyone knows what the American Dream is or has a dream for himself. Most people have been let down by this dream and become aware that this dream was unrealistic. But‚ all the while some people have persevered and fully realized their dream. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism to portray the decline of the American Dream. In the immediate context of the story Fitzgerald uses color and objects to show the corruption of society and unattainable
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Gatsby’s Identity The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes identity as a theme. The main character Gatsby‚ practices to establish his identity to be viewed in a positive way. His view of his own identity is affected by his personal relationships with other characters in the book. Fitzgerald uses other characters identities to help expand Gatsby’s identity in a negative or positive. In the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald builds Gatsby’s identity by how the characters perceive and interact
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In his novel the Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. His life being as just an ordinary‚ lower-class‚ citizen‚ yet Gatsby still has a dream of becoming wealthy man. After meeting Daisy‚ he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life‚ Gatsby gains the title of truly being great. Even before Gatsby is introduced‚ he is hinted at being out of the ordinary. The first evidence of this is when Nick says‚ "Gatsby turned out alright at the
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Social mobility – it is the primary effect of the American Dream‚ which itself is an idea that seems simple‚ but is peculiarly hard to define. At the root of it is the sense of a society’s lust for success obtained by hard work‚ honesty‚ and modesty. If in fact this Dream were in the reach of anybody‚ then society would exist as a community where "all men are created equal" and everyone would have the opportunity of social mobility by doing the best for themselves as they could. But the reality of
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Jonny Hernandez ENG 101 Andrea Lochen 16 December 2014 College is too expensive College is the key to success or is it the key to being in debt for the rest of your life? College tuition is one the biggest investments one makes and its one the most expensive ones as well. But college wasn’t always that expensive. When applying for college many take in consideration if what they are going to major in will pay off their student loans after they graduate. Or sometimes the price of college scares people
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writes‚ “John Cody was the first to suggest‚ in a 1971 study of the Dickinson family romance‚ that Dickinson was a full-fledged psychotic‚ experiencing a complete mental breakdown during the crisis years of 1861-63.” (Fuss) Although the author makes it clear that post mortem psychological analysis is based on speculation‚ she continues by stating that “armed with the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association ’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ Cody has expanded his
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and even more productive. However‚ The Great Gatsby expresses how those amenities stem the immorality present within the Roaring Twenties. Dan Cody‚ a wealthy business man‚ lived five wonderful years with Gatsby at his side. “It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died… He (Gatsby) never understood the legal device used against him‚ but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye” (Fitzgerald
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that attended his funeral. Nick comes to the realization that Tom‚ Jordan‚ and Daisy are all self-centered and Gatsby was the only genuine person. Dan Cody was the person who got Gatsby involved in bootlegging and other illegal sundries. As Gatsby got involved in illegal activities he was being pushed away from James Gatz and closer to Gatsby. Dan Cody represents the new and improved version of the former James Gatz‚ Gatsby. Nick
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The Great Gatsby: A Cautionary Tale In the 1920’s‚ there was a nationwide belief that the American Dream was dead. However‚ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald believed wholeheartedly in the American Dream‚ just not the corrupted version of it which permeated the lifestyles of Americans in the 1920’s. In response he wrote a certifiable exposé on corruption in the form of his most popular work‚ The Great Gatsby. This 1925 masterpiece is a realistic fiction novel narrated from the point of view of Nick
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narrator Nick Carraway that he could not bear working as a janitor to support himself through college any longer. Soon afterward‚ he meets Dan Cody‚ a copper tycoon who becomes his mentor and invites him to join his ten-year yacht trek from Girl Bay. Gatz begins going by the name Jay Gatsby and‚ over the next five years‚ learns the ways of the wealthy. Cody leaves Gatsby $25‚000 in his will‚ but after his death‚ Cody’s mistress cheats Gatsby out of the money.In 1917‚ during his training for the infantry
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