... that once characterized the old world. Through much of the colonial era, the neoclassical to the post- modernist years, this feeling of idealism and cheerfulness about America and Americans has evolved, today adding secular and capitalistic overtures to its propositions, perpetrating a hegemony of class and social privilege. William Fahey in his book F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream, defined the "dream" as it connotes today ... him apart from others- his effected accent and his habit of referring to anyone as an "old sport." Even one of Gatsby's guest's, Owl eyes, is surprised...

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