... . In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, one ideology critiqued is the American Dream. The author leads the reader in modern society to adapt a dominant reading where the American Dream is portrayed as an illusion. The author uses values, attitudes and beliefs of the different social classes to illustrate The Dream and it's successes and failures during the novel. The conventions used to construct this idea ... has a snobbish attitude, something which opposes the American Dream and what it stands for. The descriptive language used to describe the setting is also contrasting. East Egg'...

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... wasteful consumption of goods... From that point onward, consumption has gained ground, until, at present, it unquestionably holds the primacy." This quote by Thorstein Veblen provides an accurate depiction of life in America in The Great Gatsby. Specifically, life in the West Egg. The two wealthy areas are twenty miles from New York City. West Egg and East Egg are separated by Manhasset ... As both Myrtle and Gatsby show, it would appear that the overall East Egg class is corrupt and thus suffers from overall moral deficiency. The West Egg is the image of vulgar consumption, the East Eg...

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In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the settings of East and West eggs, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City to assist the actions of the main characters. The East Egg is more of the upscale region of the setting. People that live there have all the money, drive fancy cars and dress in expensive clothing. It symbolizes comfort, which means that it is always pleasant there. The East Egg also symbolizes ... prosperity. The people ... there, like Jay Gatsby, are successful. Daisy Buchanan is one of these people. She goes to Gatsby parties and wants to fit in with society. She appear...

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