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The Great Gatsby

Literature is not only concerned with telling stories, it also has the potential to question the society from which it emerges. Fitzgerald does exactly this in The Great Gatsby, by using a very sincere character, Nick, to be the narrator. Nick, who was brought up in the Mid-West, a very conservative area, had good values and morals, and could be trusted to tell the story as it was. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald focuses on privileged young people between the age of 20 and 30 years. He paints a vivid picture of the ‘American Dream’, materialism, the careless lifestyles and the class and social discrimination of the people in that era.

The Great Gatsby questioned the American Dream and how real it was. Although the literal tragedy in The Great Gatsby was Gatsby’s death, the real tragedy is that Gatsby’s death represents the failure of the American Dream. The American political ideals of equality among people, was inconsistent with the existing societal situation. Gatsby was an extreme American idealist, and the fact that he who had lived his whole life trying to achieve something and failed to do so and that this reflected on society in that era, was the major tragedy in the novel. “There must have been momen

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