... 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 substance to the dream had been corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth. The characters are Midwesterners who have come East in pursuit of this new dream of ... been channelled into the pursuit of power and pleasure, and a very showy, but fundamentally empty form of success. How is this developed? In the chapter-by-chapter analysis, especially in the Notes, The Fitzgerald's critique of the ...

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