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    America dreamed of attaining financial greatness. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in New York City‚ the epitome of industrialization and economic opportunity during the Jazz Age. The young‚ charming‚ and charismatic Jay Gatsby flaunts his financial prosperity through lavish and colorful parties. However‚ Gatsby’s money is earned dishonestly and is short lived. Fitzgerald reveals the intangibility of the American Dream through various characters in the novel. George Wilson embodies the underprivileged

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    it could change someone’s life or kill them. F. Scott Fitzgerald had created both Winter Dreams and The Great Gatsby. The two stories are quite similar ‚but also very unique in their own way. Gatsby and Dexter both come from either poor or middle class families. The two just want to fit into the higher class and both of them needed the last piece to becoming apart of the higher class. The location Gatsby and Dexter live impacted their lives and as well did the people that lived around them‚ also

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    13‚ 2012 Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and The American Dream America is commonly known as a place where opportunities are fairly unlimited to everyone. A shared goal among American society is the attainment of wealth‚ freedom‚ and prosperity. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby leads his reader on a winding‚ dangerous journey in order to describe a failed attempt to achieve the American Dream in a corrupt 1920’s society. Daisy Buchanan‚ Tom Buchanan‚ and Jay Gatsby are three characters that

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    The Great Gatsby The idea that Gatsby is the embodiment of the American Dream is the dominant portrayal of his character in the novel because his desire of procuring Daisy is the main goal in his life and he has the ability the distort the truth of his identity. For instance‚ attaining Daisy’s affection means everything to Gatsby. Nick’s first sighting of Gatsby is at the end of the first chapter‚ where Gatsby stands with his arms stretched out longingly toward the green light at the end of Daisy’s

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    sense of these examples from novels such as The Great Gatsby and Bodega Dreams. During the early 1920’s‚ The Great Gatsby takes place in Long Island‚ New York where the community mostly consist of rich white people. Then there’s Bodega Dreams which sets in the 1990’s in Spanish Harlem‚ New York where the community would mostly consist of latinos/latinas. The two novels present us with examples of how race can impact our society. In Bodega Dreams‚ students in Spanish Harlem are stereotyped by the

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    Fitzgerald’s theme 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

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby‚ narrator Nick Carraway effectively sums up the motivating force that drives the novel’s titular character‚ Jay Gatsby. It is the achievement of the American Dream that hangs – unreached – at the end of Carraway’s sentence. In this way‚ the story leaves us with a similar lasting taste of longing‚ the bittersweet realization that powerful as the Dream may be‚ it is just that: a dream. And yet‚ while the Dream‚ like the sentence – is never fully realized

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    THE THEME OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THE FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY The 1920s or “the Jazz Age” was the era of the American Dream – the era of equal opportunities (or at least it was thought so) and the times when economy started rising with an enormous speed. The Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is situated in this era and it offers a great insight into what was happening in that time as the novel shows that the values changed and that in that time the American Dream became a synonym for becoming

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    Death of Hope The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ends with Gatsby’s death and Nick’s return to the Midwest. The author is illustrating throughout the novel the society’s views of the American Dream in the 1920s as the best way of life‚ but often it is not true and very few people end up living the dream. Fitzgerald exhibits this in The Great Gatsby through the downfall of the unhappy‚ yet wealthy‚ and through the lessons learned by the people surrounding them. The American society is corrupt

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    The American Dream in The Great Gatsby “But the country’s disintegrating. What’s happened to America? What’s happened to the American dream?”-Alan Moore. This quote relates to the downfall of the American Dream in the novel‚ The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby‚ written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ takes place in 1920s America. In the story‚ a man named Jay Gatsby finds out that the woman he loves‚ Daisy‚ had married another man‚ Tom Buchanan. He then decides to dedicate his life to become wealthy

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