... the consumer culture in which the twentieth century male exists in and how it has led to the destruction of the individual and in essence individuality. The main character of the novel, the Narrator, an unnamed "thirty year old boy" who is employed in the recall division of the Federated Motor Corporation is the personification ... Narrator also says, while looking through the IKEA catalogue, " What kind of plates define me as a person". Here it is evident that it is not the character of the individual and attributes that define him as an individual but what possessions the individual o...

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• Grade Level: High School

... also place very little value on individual human beings or on humanity as a whole. Each character is too wrapped up in him/herself that he/she does not take the time to care for others. Class levels are prominent - the rich are drastically separated from the poor, and the ... a dream" (Tyson 75-76). Marxist theory claims that in Capitalism, "the most desired people are perceived as desirable objects" (Posnock 201). The character most often treated as an object in Gatsby is Daisy. Almost every man that Daisy comes into contact with assumes that she can be obtained. Although ... a high exc...

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• Grade Level: High School