... Great Gatsby perfectly illuminates the American life of the Jazz Age. It stoof the test of time and has earned the distinction as one of the truly great American novels. "No writer has more closely personified the glamour and heartbreak of the American dream... 'not just the American dream, but the human dream,'" ("Fitzgerald" 30). Historically, this novel is useful in understanding what was going ... seems very kind, he is not afraid to be unscrupulous to get what he wants" ("Character" n. pag.). With the coming of Prohibition, the law banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution o...

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