The American Dream encompasses the idea that all people have the equal opportunity to achieve prosperity‚ liberty and happiness through hard work and determination. However‚ in reality this idea is flawed and unachievable due to lack of equal opportunity and excessive materialism. This is emphasised in both F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby and in Langston Hughes’s poem‚ ‘Let America be America Again’‚ which is about the social inequality and injustices that occur in America today.
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Back in days the American Dream was different than today’s. In “The Great Gatsby”the american dream is that gatsby was living the life he wanted but still chasing his dreams for daisy but didn’t come true with daisy. “ A new world‚material without being real‚where poor ghosts ‚breathing dreams like air‚drifted fortuitously about..like that ashen‚fantastic figure gliding toward though the amorphous trees.” (pg 124) “But he didn’t despise himself and it didn’t turn out as he had imagined.” (pg105)
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The American Dream Over the course of time‚ the term “The American Dream” has changed. Although the goal for many who come to America has remained the same. That goal is to make their mark on these great lands and better themselves in away that could not be accomplished in their home land. To live a life that is filled with many opportunities for the user to succeed. An excellent example of this is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ written in the 1920’s but shows many different views of the
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fiery passion to achieve the American Dream. This fire is not innocent‚ however. As we strive to stoke the fire to ever greater heights‚ the things we use as fuel - friends‚ family‚ people we may not even know - are burned away‚ turned into nothing but ashes. As Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby‚ Tennessee Williams in the play The Glass Menagerie‚ Langston Hughes in the poem Harlem‚ and Lorraine Hansberry in the play A Raisin in the Sun argue‚ the American Dream - which smolder inside all of
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The roaring 1920s were a pivotal time in American history. Everyone was aspiring something worked hard to achieve the perfect “American Dream”. The stocks were rising and never seemed like they’d fall‚ underground nightclubs during prohibition made people feel invincible‚ and cars were the newest innovation that everyone had to have. However‚ this golden age came to a sudden crash after stocks dramatically fell in 1929. Many people lost everything they owned as the unemployment rate reached 25%.
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The Great Gatsby: The Corruption of the American Dream In the 1920’s many people left their countries to come to America seeking for the American dream. The American Dream meant being successful and happy. Many people started to learn that they couldn’t find that happiness without the money. In Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the characters based their lives off of wealth and materialism‚ forgetting what the real idea of the American dream was. Throughout the story‚ Daisy‚ Gatsby and Myrtle
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In both The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “American Dream” by MKTO both writers convey that living the american dream may not be enough in the end. In The Great Gatsby the American Dream is striving to have more money than equality‚ and where you’re placed in the social class. In the book‚ Gatsby does whatever he can to win Daisy‚ he buys an expensive mansion and throws luxurious parties hoping one day Daisy will walk in. Gatsby uses the American Dream to gain Daisy back‚ but he sees that
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Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Criticism of The American Dream The American Dream‚ as it arose in the Colonial period and developed in the nineteenth century‚ was based on the assumption that each person‚ no matter what his origins‚ could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man‚ just as it was embodied in Fitzgerald’s own family by his grandfather‚ P. F. McQuillan. Fitzgerald’s novel takes its place among other
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(United States Declaration of Independence). In much the same way as the authors of the founding fathers‚ the American Dream can be defined simply as the pursuit and the achievement of happiness. Clarifications‚ like not needing to use underhanded means‚ are not necessary because it is readily apparent that these means do not provide happiness nor liberty. In other words‚ the American Dream is attainable through hard work‚ determination‚ and the fruits of honest labor‚ even though it is embodied negatively
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Is Gatsby great or not? Section 1: Gatsby is generous to the people at his parties. He throws banquets and spends a lot of money on food‚ preparations and entertainment. Gatsby is a generous host. “most people were brought” “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet
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