... 's wife! These obvious facts raise the question, "What is so Great About Gatsby?" Fitzgerald himself tells us through Nick Carraway, the narrator of this novel just how great Gatsby is. " "They're a rotten crowd'... 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together" " (Fitzgerald, 162). (Abbott) We think of Gatsby as great, because of his dream. Jay Gatsby, born James Gatz, had the dream of becoming something more than ... he was. When James was taken under the wing of Dan Cody, a product of the silver fields, he got that opportunity. Now Jay Gatsby ... with a dream as noble as true love ...

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In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the concept of a dream as something wanted so badly, but cannot ever come true. He demonstrates this concept in many of his characters. These characters are so simple that they are complicated. They want something so badly yet they act like they don't want it only because they know that they can never have it. Fitzgerald characters are so ... petty, and small-minded. Gatsby is a man with, as he sees it, an attainable dream. He wishes to re-create the past. This of course is so impossible that he seems ... are so self-involved. They are selfish peop...

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... obliterated the early spiritual ideals. So there emerged a state of material well-being but lacking in spiritual life or purpose. So that when Fitzgerald produced Gatsby, modelled no doubt on the writer's own faith in life, he seemed to have created a character who represented an early American in ... there are still poverty, discrimination and exploitation. And as for the values and morality, there are also hypocrisy, corruption and suppression. In a way The Great Gatsby" is also a comment on this condition. The Corruption Of The American Dream The American Dream - as it arose in the Co...

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Classic English Literature The classic American novel, "The Great Gatsby", written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, portrays the failure of the American dream, from the point of view that American ... : class struggles between rich and the poor, superficiality of the rich and the false relationship between money and happiness. Through his novel, Fitzgerald consistently portrays the dismissal of the idea of equality, where American society would be free from class distinction. The novel reflects a divided society ... inevitably replacing the American dream with materialism. Due to this sentimen...

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... capture the American Dream is used in many novels. This dream is different for different people, in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. Fitzgerald wanted to make the reader believe that the American dream had died by having the main characters fall under ... based on the idea that each person no matter who he or she is can become successful in life by his or her hard work. The Great Gatsby is about what happened to the American Dream in the 1920s, a time period when the many people with newfound wealth and the need to flaunt ....

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Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald embodies may themes, however the most salient one relates to the corruption of the American Dream. The American Dream is that ... each person no matter who he or she is can become successful in life by his or her own hard work. The dream also embodies the idea of a self-sufficient man, an entrepreneur making it successful for himself. The Great Gatsby ... of where the possibilities were endless and one could accomplish anything through hard work. The American dream became corrupted, its main aims were we...

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The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald embodies may themes, however the most salient one relates to the corruption of the American Dream. The American Dream is that each person no matter ... who he or she is can become successful in life by his or her own hard work. The dream also embodies the idea of a self-sufficient man, an entrepreneur making it successful for himself. The Great Gatsby ... goals of where the possibilities were endless and one could accomplish anything through hard work. The American dream became corrupted, its main aims were wealth and power. Gatsby became corrupted becaus...

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... falls in their attempt at reaching this honor. When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, the era of the "roaring 20's" was taking place in which Fitzgerald felt there was a decay of moral values that had taken place. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the downfall of those who sought after the American Dream. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a chronicle of the failure of the American Dream. ... The rise and fall of Jay Gatsby parallels the rise and fall of the American Dream ... . The rise of Jay Gatsby, born James Gatz, is shown through his past ... ...

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