Mackenzie Boughen Mrs. Vrankic ENG 4U1 Monday‚ October-27-14 The Destructive American Dream in The Great Gatsby “Then wear the gold hat‚ if that will move her; If you can bounce high‚ bounce for her too‚ Till she cry ‘Lover‚ gold-hatted‚ high-bouncing lover‚ I must have you!’” (pg. 6). The Great Gatsby is an extraordinarily telling story of the fatal flaws within the ‘American Dream’‚ in disguise as a love story. It appears to be a novel portraying Jay Gatsby’s love for Daisy Buchanan when‚ in
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In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald each character have an American dream they want to have but each of them face something tragic that will cause their dream to fail. The “American Dream” can be through work to earn money or to love someone and can separate the rich from the poor. The self-Improvement can be destructive but can also be constructive because there were things that made their American dream come true and in the end it turns out to be wrong. The self-improvement
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The Great Gatsby The American Dream idealizes being economically wealthy with old money; F. Scoot Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s transformation to fit this framework depicting a less romanticized perspective on this ideal. It is obscure how Gatsby becomes rich however we find evidence in the novel that suggests that Gatsby didn’t do it the moral way. Gatsby believes in The American Dream of success and how he attains his dream does not matter to him as long as he fulfils it. The author of
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American Dream of the 1920s An accurate name for the 1920s is the roaring twenties. This was a decade full of social transformation and industrialization. Through this shift‚ a degradation in social moral occurred. A victim of this shift is the character J. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is “corrupted by values and attitudes that he holds in common with a society that destroys him”(44). Through this mutual and obscured social moral‚ Gatsby seems to obtain a destructive view
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Dreams Whether lavish and extravagant‚ or humble and mundane‚ they’re something that everybody has‚ but not everybody gets. Dreams are often sought after with such great desire for the possibility of it coming to existence‚ that all rational ideas are pushed aside and reality is warped. The essence of this is perfectly captured in Jay Gatsby’s character of Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby and can be likened to Laura Wingfield of Tennessee William’s‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ and the narrator of Hunger
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The ‘American Dream’ in The Great Gatsby It has been said that “people are so busy dreaming the American Dream‚ fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be‚ that they’re all asleep at the switch‚ [the American man has lost his focus]” <www.thinkexist.com>. What exists behind the vision of the American Dream is a paralleled unreality. Humans are dreamers‚ and desires often create beliefs in people’s minds that lead them to strongly believe in a successful outcome. Unfortunately
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the American Dream. This dream‚ regardless of whether it truly exists or not‚ is a pursuit of all Americans‚ and is what brings people from all four corners of the Earth to the United States of America. Most would view the desire to succeed and fulfill the “American Dream” as a valuable and praise worthy endeavor. Fitzgerald however‚ through his novel The Great Gatsby‚ reveals to us that the pursuit for success and fame is not necessarily a positive thing. As evidenced by The Great Gatsby‚ the American
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The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about the struggle of achieving the American dream‚ and how much a person is willing to do to reach it. The book’s focus is on the obsession of Gatsby‚ the protagonist‚ and his feelings for Daisy‚ a married woman who he was previously involved with. The novel also focuses on Gatsby’s determination to make her fall in love with him by the glitz of money and power. Fitzgerald uses the symbols of wealth‚ superficiality and irresponsibility to convey
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themes the author is trying to portray. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ he uses a variety of character types to do just that. The characters in The Great Gatsby give the novel diversity and help show Fitzgerald’s prominent ideas about the sinfulness‚ and the integrity of human nature in their own ways. A few characters noteworthy of illustrating these concepts are Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ and Jay Gatsby. Tom Buchanan is a character who strongly represents Fitzgerald’s ideas about
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Pursuit of Happiness." This sentiment can be considered the foundation of the American Dream‚ the dream that everyone has the ability to become what he or she desires to be. While many people work to attain their American dream‚ others believe that the dream is seemingly impossible to reach‚ like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby examines the "Jazz-Age" generation’s search for the elusive American Dream of wealth and happiness and scrutinizes the consequences of that generation’s adherence
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