... doesn't have a chance now to fulfill his most important dream of love with Daisy. "Gatsby, the "mythic" embodiment of the American Dream, is shown to us in all his immature romanticism. His insecure grasp of social and human values, his lack of critical intelligence and self - knowledge, his blindness to the pitfalls that surround him in American society, his compulsive optimism ... , are realized in the text with rare assurance and understanding" (Bewley 53). Gatsby shows the reader his immature signs of romanticism by thinking that Daisy would wait for him to come back. He also shows i...

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... 's Novels", Grindin agrees that Gatsby's efforts are wasted on Daisy and states, "Jay Gatsby, the subject of the novel, is the embodiment of the American Dream. . . its impossible romanticism, its belief in its capacity to recapture a past that may never had existed" (Grindin 89). As the novel progresses, Gatsby is a hopeful young man who stakes everything on his ... ...

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... his short stories were very popular in magazines. Fitzgerald's fame grew until he died of a heart attack in 1940. Fitzgerald's literary style was that of Realism, a movement in contrast to Romanticism. Realists "imagined life not only as it could be, but examine(d) life as it actually was lived, and record(ed) what they saw around them as honestly as they could ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School