... others have not had, and that he is one of the few honest people that he knows (Fitzgerald 1, 64). This sets a stage for a novel, where everything the reader reads is the plain truth, unbiased because the narrator himself is unbiased and honest. What are left are then the plain realities, ... the social divisions in American society, even at the upper class, a fact still relevant to today's America. New York itself symbolizes immigrant America, where immigrants used to and still do flood into America's shores in hopes of a better life. Nick himself described America as once being "a fre...

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... to help expand their country's empire, some were explorers searching for new adventures, but most came for the American Dream. The American Dream for these immigrants consisted of a few basic ideas such as religious freedom, equality, and a chance to succeed in the world. These people sacrificed everything for the possibility of escaping the oppression of their ... they were continually looked down upon. F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, sums up the American Dream of the 1920's. The novel relates the story of a man searching for his American Dream. Jay Gatsby is the ...

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