... principles, there are still poverty, discrimination and exploitation. And as for the values and morality, there are also hypocrisy, corruption and suppression. In a way The Great Gatsby" is also a comment on this condition. The Corruption Of The American Dream The American Dream - as it arose in the Colonial period and developed in the ... The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man, just as it was embodied in Fitzgerald's own family by his grandfather. The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a period when the old values that gave ...

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... I bring into discussion issues arising from the pursuit of this dream by examining the lives of the protagonists of two important American literatures: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The protagonists of both novels are linked by their parallel ambitions, their motivations, and their resulting dissatisfaction. By examining the symbolic representations of the causes and actions ... Tom, get the love of beautiful women that are longed for by the nice guys of the world, dreamers like Gatsby. Again about Nick's analogy on symbols taking the int...

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