... about America and Americans has evolved, today adding secular and capitalistic overtures to its propositions, perpetrating a hegemony of class and social privilege. William Fahey in his book F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream, defined the "dream" as it connotes today. For Fahey, this dream involves "a rise ... German spy during World War I. Others also said that they heard that Gatsby was a graduate of Oxford and had once killed a man in cold blood. As much as Gatsby did not know anything about his guests, his guests also know nothing about him. Gatsby's parties therefore came t...

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