... commitment. The American Dream is a universal hope familiar to our society and characters in the book consisting of aspirations of a perfect life and achievements. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted ... purpose. "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion," Nick acclaims in th...

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... . Tom Buchanan, Daisy's hulking husband, is bathed in a spiteful tone by Fitzgerald, who shows contempt for this character's materialistic values and disregard for good character. While describing the meeting between Nick Carraway, the narrator, and this arrogant man, Fitzgerald describes this haughty man's eyes as "shining, arrogant- and that they had "established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of ... ...

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