... -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 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 money, fame, success, glamour, and ... the chapter-by-chapter analysis, especially in the Notes, The Fitzgerald's critique of the dream of success is developed primarily through the five central characters and through certain domi...

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