The Broken 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
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Many American writers have been successful in shattering what they consider to be the myth of “The American Dream”. Discuss this in relation to the texts you have studied. “…It ’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don ’t like in order to go on doing things you don ’t like…we ’re bringing up children‚ and educating them to live the same sort of lives we ’re living…that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children
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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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Since its publication in 1925‚ F. S. Fitzgerald ‘ s novel The Great Gatsby has becomeone of the most cited‚ criticized and analyzed pieces of fiction in the history of Americanliterature. It has often been depicted as “ perhaps the most striking fictional analysis of the ageof the gang barons and the social conditions that produced them “( Sculley‚ 1965:1088).Without a doubt‚ it is a fantastic representation of an age in American history wheneverything was possible‚ or at least people thought it
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The American Dream From the birth of America‚ to America today‚ the driving force and the heart of America has always been the “American Dream.” The actual idea of the “American Dream” is older than the United States. It dates back to the 1600’s‚ when people began to come up with all sorts of hopes and aspirations for the new and largely unexplored continent. Many of the dreams focused on owning land and establishing prosperous businesses which would lead to “happiness.” The “American Dream” is the
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Social Commentary on the American Dream The American Dream is the ideal that “every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work‚ determination‚ and initiative” (Dictionary.com). The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is not just a story about the rich and privileged. It comments on the social divides between the old and new rich while speaking about a disillusioned America. Fitzgerald’s characters
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The Great Gatsby and the American Dream The Great Gatsby is an interesting and thought-provoking novel by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald that sets to explore important and complex social themes such as the hollowness of the upper class and the characteristics and decline of the American Dream during the prosperous years preceding the Great Depression. The Great Gatsby is presented at the surface as a thwarted love story between a man‚ Jay Gatsby‚ and a woman‚ Daisy Buchanan. However‚ the
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delight. The neglectful jubilance that prompted wanton gatherings and wild jazz music—encapsulated in The Great Gatsby by the rich gatherings that Gatsby tosses each Saturday night—came about eventually in the debasement of the American dream‚ as the over the top craving for cash and delight surpassed more honorable objectives. At the point when World War I finished in 1918‚ the era of youthful Americans who had battled the war turned out to be strongly baffled‚ as the severe gore that they had recently
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The American Dream is as open ended an idea as any. Some will answer it is the freedom of religion‚ class or race‚ others will claim it is about the ability to choose where they want to work‚ what they want to wear‚ or what’s for breakfast the next day. The American Dream in itself is just to give hope. Hope for something better. For Jay Gatsby and many others‚ the American Dream is about gaining wealth and material possessions in an attempt to find happiness. Throughout his novel‚ The Great Gatsby
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American Dream According to the definition of the American dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931‚ “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone‚ with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. Typically‚ the dreamer aspires to rise from rags to riches‚ ultimately achieving a high status‚ wealth‚ and power that can lead to the top. The American dream has changed over time‚ although the concept of it is still based on
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