In F. Scott Fitzgerald's highly accomplished novel, The American Dream, he portrays the longing for the American Dream as a significant part of ones life, very familiar to society as a corrupted essence of reality and ideals that the characters, especially Jay Gatsby, truly represent. ... In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth. ... This quote also reveals that maybe even Daisy was not...

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However, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's critically acclaimed novel, presents the American dream as an illusion which can never be achieved, and according to recent events in America, Fitzgerald is evidently correct. ... This delusion of the American Dream is the paramount theme in The Great Gatsby, and it is the main message Fitzgerald attempts to convey in his saddening, but insightful novel. ... Daisy is evidently personified as the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby. ... In other words, the upper class stays in the upper class, and the lower class stays in the l...

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Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to illustrate the corruption and eventual downward spiral of the American Dream to the vulgar pursuit of wealth and materialism in the 1920s. ... (Fitzgerald 104). ... (Fitzgerald 92). ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to symbolize a person in whom the Dream is still very much alive as part of a vanished past where America was seen as a land of great opportunity. ...

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The Trustworthiness of Nick Callaway F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. Taking place on the West and East Eggs of Long Island, The Great Gatsby tells the tale of Jay Gatsby (an incredibly wealthy but yet a complete mystery of a man) and of his undying love for Daisy Buchanan. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of lavish parties filled with drunken orgies of sheer debauchery, love affairs, and murder, but yet it still manages to show the innocence and naivety of the very p...

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At first inspection F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby' appears to be just another novel about post world war one America, but viewing it as such would only be scratching the surface of a much deeper, darker and depressing story. ... I believe that Fitzgerald's novel does meet the criteria of 'Valuable literature' and will explain why I think this in this essay. ... Society The cast of 'The Great Gatsby' live in the jazz era of 1920's America which was a rather carefree era which is evident with all the lavish and wasteful and over the t...

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For my theory on the relationship between literature and society, I am using Plato, Wordsworth, Marx, Bakhtin, Fitzgerald, Mitchell, and Althusser. ... The Marxist theory will help me analyze the connection between literature and society through the works of Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakhtin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, and Althusser. ... He places a great deal of emphasis on the importance of words addressing someone and having the opportunity to generate conversation to receive an answer. ...

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