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    and title of locations in the Great Gatsby. To some the location and name of a place can be simply just that‚but to me the East and West Egg and the Valley of Ashes hold so much symbolism just in the location and name of a place. The East Egg‚ the land every person dreams to be in. Tom and Daisy lived here‚ they had ‘old money’ which is the more respected money. The green light resides on the East egg‚ both ‘old money’ and the green light are things that gatsby will never acquire‚ enforcing that

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    The Great Gatsby: The American Dream "Their love is founded upon feelings from the past‚ these give it‚ notwithstanding Gatsby’s insistence on being able to repeat the past‚ an inviolability. It exists in the world of money and corruption but is not of it." The Great Gatsby‚ a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is about the American Dream‚ and the demise of those who attempt to capture its false goals. For Jay‚ the dream is that‚ through wealth and power‚ one can obtain happiness

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    The Great Gatsby The American Dream for men in the 1920’s was to get rich and make a lot of money how ever they can no matter what. For women an American Dream was to do men’s work and have equal rights between men and women’s working and living conditions. Only for some people in different social classes were their dreams attained. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby so he can show society that an American Dream is what people make of it and their not always achievable. James Gatz’s

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    Decline of the American Dream Americans are good dreamers who are willing to work hard to turn their dreams into reality‚ and some of them do succeed. By the 1920’s‚ a multitude of people have made large amounts of money‚ but due to the material excessiveness of the rich‚ some gradually corrupted the purity of their American Dreams. In The Great Gatsby‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald criticizes the theme of the decline of the American Dream in the 1920s by showing the opulence and sloth of both rich and poor

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    The novel the great Gatsby tells a story about Gatsby’s " American dream "is a dream out of experience and its tragic ending. The root of the tragedy is that Gatsby didn’t realize his dream‚ also did not see Daisy’s true nature. Many people see gates than dream as the bursting of the "American dream"‚ in fact‚ Gatsby’s dream and not a real "American dream". The "American dream" is the dream of every citizen of the United States and has always been the pursuit has a long history.‚ in the middle of

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    in The Great Gatsby is the corruption and decline of the ‘American Dream’. By analyzing the upper class during the 1920s through the eyes of the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ Fitzgerald shows that the American Dream has transformed from noble thoughts to more materialistic and money based ideas. Fitzgerald also highlights the original aspects as well as the new aspects of the American Dream in his tragic novel to illustrate that a once impervious dream is now lost forever to the American people.

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    articles that make them happy. In F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby‚ Fizgerald keenly shows us how Jay Gatsby is one of these people. Gatsby believes that if he has money‚ he can do attain great goals. Gatsby is a sensible man‚ yet he has many false conceptions. Jay Gatsby believes that money can recreate the past‚ can buy him happiness‚ and can be helpful in achieving a level of prestige in the prominent East Egg. <br> <br>Jay Gatsby believes he can buy happiness; and this is exhibited through his

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    American Dreams Rewritten Almost everyone has their own American Dream. Some achieve their dream while some do not. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald several people had an American Dream. Nick Carraway wanted to live a successful life in West Egg. While Jay Gatsby wanted to be with Daisy Buchanan. Did Nick fulfill his dream? The reader would never know. Gatsby on the other hand died while trying to get his dream. What would happen if his dream was different? What if his dream was to

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    1 20 April 2013 Gatsby’s American Dream In the novel The Great Gatsby written by E. Scott Fitzgerald “ The American Dream” presents itself by showing the desperation of Jay Gatsby trying to reach his true American Dream. As we all know the American dream is unobtainable realistically speaking‚ but what will one person do to achieve this goal? Jay Gatsby is a rich‚ handsome‚ bachelor who seems to have it all. He’s living the life that most people now could only dream of. The luxury cars‚ ritzy

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    Classless/ American ideology boasts that it is a _______ society‚ but the comparisons between West Egg‚ East egg and the Valley of Ashes beg to differ. love/ "Only fools fall in _______‚" is an old expression that applies to Gatsby ‚ who is believed to be the biggest fool in the novel in this sense. Though there is speculation of whether or not he actually ____s Daisy or the idea of sweeping an aristocrat girl off her feet. Dream/ The American _______‚ is always discussed ‚but rarely verified

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