... because although he found financial stability, he did not find the happiness to come with it. For Gatsby, the pursuit of his American dream took the path of amassing of great personal wealth and social success that will capture the heart Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby was born very poor he was the son of a " ... win Daisy's love as seen in the idea of the mysterious green light that extended from Gatsby's dock to the end of Daisy's window, this to me represents the true American dream. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us".(189) Gatsby's o...

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... positive reviews from critics and the few that did usually did not sell because of the Great Depression. Fitzgerald tried to base his writings on aspiration and idealism defining true American character ( F Scott Fitzgerald Centenary 3). However, the people of Fitzgerald's time did not understand the greatness of his writings. Even his best work, The Great Gatsby received only mixed reviews and ... ...

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... wanted his money. "Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust " (Fitzgerald 131) She tried hard to achieve the American Dream, but in the end she belonged in The Valley of Ashes and that is where she died. In The Great Gatsby all the women had different characteristics, but something ... ...

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