... cynicism, greed, and an empty pursuit of pleasure. 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. The transformation from James Gatz, the ambitious janitor from North Dakota, to Jay Gatsby, the epitome of the self made man, exemplifies Gatsby's lifelong pursuit of his aristocratic roots. James Gatz had ... in effort to win her back and obtain the final piece of an elaborate destiny of greatness. His pursuit of Daisy, much li...

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... and pursued. Jay Gatsby and the American Dream For Jay Gatsby the protagonist of The Great Gatsby, the pursuit of his American dream took the path of amassing of great personal wealth and social success that will capture the heart of a beautiful lady called Daisy Buchanan. Born in rural North Dakota and growing up with poor parents, Gatsby came to despise of poverty. Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby notes that Gatsby is the son of ... Daisy immediately fell in love with her because she personifies to him the aura of wealth, sophistication, charm and beauty that he desires ...

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... theme, an idea that transpires and transcends through the ages, never wilting or loosing stature as time flies by. Kennedy had diplomacy, Martin Luther had equality, and similarly in literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby had the American dream. For in The Great Gatsby there is a great exploration of this theme revolving around one central character, Jay Gatsby, who to this day, still speaks for today ... 's America. Gatsby still speaks for today's America because he still embodies the American dream, for although not as reckless and prodigal as ... dream, and it could never become ...

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... from his father: "all the people in this world have not had the advantages you've had" and "a sense of the fundamental decencies are parceled out unequally at birth" (56). But the source of his cynical interior is left unknown to the mere plot of The Great Gatsby. One must ask what has Nick lost to make him utterly resentful of the people who received the short end of those decencies ... parceled out at birth. Nick longs to have a mind that can "romp like the mind of God" (117), a creative spirit, able ... to achieve great success and meaning in his life, while ... ...

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... Tom commits adultery with a mistress named Myrtle Wilson who is also committing the act of adultery upon her husband. There is also the example of the love that Daisy and Jay Gatsby share, or rather Gatsby's unrequited love for Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy could be said to have an unhealthy relationship since Gatsby only had a short relationship with her, a relationship she soon got over, though he never did ... . Love in this novel often seems to be tainted and deceitful as well as being very controversial. We see Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan's husband, cheating on her with a mistress by the...

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... familiar to society as a corrupted essence of reality and ideals that the characters, especially Jay Gatsby, truly represent. The question saunters, what truly is the corruption of the American Dream? In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth ... Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion," Nick acclaims in the novel...

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... fought, all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material revelry and at the same time presented the disappointment of the postwar generation for America, the concern for the loss of conventional values and ideals, and the regret for the disillusionment of American Dream.The Great Gatsby is well-known as the most mature work of Fitzgerald, whether in thought or in writing techniques ... . He overcame the precious flaws and applied imagism and symbolism ... flags twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled ...

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The central conflict in "The Great Gatsby," (announced by Nick in the fourth paragraph of the book), is the conflict between Gatsby's dream and the reality that "the foul dust which floats in the wake of his dreams." Gatsby, Nick tells us, "turned out all right in the end"; the dreamer remains as pure, as inviolable, at bottom, as his dream of a greatness, an attainment "commensurate to man's capacity for wonder." What does ... are born, Nick tells us that "the only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchore...

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