Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to illustrate the corruption and eventual downward spiral of the American Dream to the vulgar pursuit of wealth and materialism in the 1920s. ... (Fitzgerald 104). ... (Fitzgerald 92). ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to symbolize a person in whom the Dream is still very much alive as part of a vanished past where America was seen as a land of great opportunity. ...

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The Trustworthiness of Nick Callaway F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. Taking place on the West and East Eggs of Long Island, The Great Gatsby tells the tale of Jay Gatsby (an incredibly wealthy but yet a complete mystery of a man) and of his undying love for Daisy Buchanan. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of lavish parties filled with drunken orgies of sheer debauchery, love affairs, and murder, but yet it still manages to show the innocence and naivety of the very p...

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