In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, all the characters are in one way or another, attempting to achieve a state of happiness in their lives. ... The poor are in way on the outside looking in, as the rich have a great time and enjoy life. ... Daisy suggests that we " beat them down" (Gatsby 18). ... Jay Gatsby was one of the successful bootleggers who sell alcohol illegally. ... Scott Fitzgerald clearly shows through his use of his characters and literary devices in The Great Gatsby, that this is clearly a novel based on how the American Dream is inevitably crushed beneath the harsh realit...

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Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925). ... Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is set in the 1920's, in Eastern America in a period well known as the "Jazz Age", during prohibition in America. ... However in his short life Gatsby was never truly happy. ... Gatsby's determination to succeed came from his love for a girl, Daisy, a girl he was not worthy of because of his financial status. ... This makes Gatsby very rich and allows him to live the extravagant lifestyle he dreamt of. ...

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The Great Gatsby The American dream is usually for things that will make a person content; may it be love, wealth, or happiness each is a symbol for what people want. In The Great Gatsby the American Dream is dirge. ... It has many examples of the living style of the people like, the glamour of Gatsby's life and the bitterness and pointlessness of the his friends and Gatsby's ableness to commit criminal acts show the time people were living in. Represented in another way, The Great Gatsby, also describes how the American dream can fail. ... So The Grea...

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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. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he ne...

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The Great Gatsby by F. ... Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream using multiple symbols in his book, The Great Gatsby. ... For example, the Valley of Ashes in the Great Gatsby is an appalling place between New York City and the eggs filled with poor, hopeless people who haven't been so fortunate. ... The eyes and the green light and the characters houses are all symbols that Fitzgerald uses to critique the American Dream in The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick was the American Fool. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, one ideology critiqued is the American Dream. ... The settings are symbolic of the great divide between rich and poor. ... After the tragic death of his wife, George falls victim to his emotions and kills Gatsby. ... The green light at the end of Daisy's dock is shown as a beacon of hope to Gatsby. ... However, the colour green represents wealth - and this shows how Daisy is not only someone Gatsby loves, but someone who is a symbol of wealth to Gatsby. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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However, The Great Gatsby, F. ... This delusion of the American Dream is the paramount theme in The Great Gatsby, and it is the main message Fitzgerald attempts to convey in his saddening, but insightful novel. ... Gatsby was in love with Daisy a long time ago, and Daisy's parents disapproved of Gatsby since he didn't have "pomp and circumstance"(75), like Tom Buchanan, and as a result Gatsby reinvents himself by becoming a financially successful man. ... Daisy is evidently personified as the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby. ... In other words, the upper c...

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The Great Gatsby The Corruption Of The American Dream "The Great Gatsby" is a novel written by F. ... I am going to show how effective Fitzgerald is at portraying the materialism in the American society throughout his novel "The great Gatsby". ... The Great Gatsby was set in the 1920s "The Jazz Age", in the very rich areas of West and East Egg- these two adjacent egg shaped land formations, contrast each other. ... Gatsby tells Daisy to leave Tom for him, she makes Gatsby believe she will but she has no intention of doing so. This is tragic for Gatsby and his Dream. ...

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The American Dream and How it is portrayed in The Great Gatsby By: Emma Macklin The Great Gatsby is a novel published in 1925, written by F. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of tragedy, love and rich vs. poor. ... The opulence of Gatsby's car shows Gatsby's exceptional wealth, it also shows that he has obtained the American Dream that many others are striving for. ... Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream in the novel The Great Gatsby as this way of life that majority of people in this era were striving towards, and were doing anything and everything to achieve it....

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This is probably the best essay about the American Dream/Great Gatsby. ... For Jay, in The Great Gatsby, the interpretation of the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. ... Generally, when people get married it is because they love one another, but in The Great Gatsby, the upper class' weddings are mainly for social purposes. ... As was shown in The Great Gatsby, the characters always wanted more of something, no matter what it was or what they had to do to get it. ... The Great Gatsby illustrates how the pursuit for happiness through materialism cannot ...

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The mysterious character of Gatsby is kept concealed from the social life in many occasions. ... Gatsby is madly in love with this figment of his imagination, not the person. ... Gatsby knows that in order to win Daisy he will have to go about to earn money. ... Gatsby wants too much to late. ... Gatsby is set with what he wants. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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In the history of the United States of America the 1920s will always be marked as a time of great wealth, prosperity and corruption. This is easily shown to us in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. ... The Green light shown is a guiding light to Gatsby that will motivate him through the novel. Also the destruction of this American Dream is shown through Gatsby's wild and decadent parties. ... The 1920s were a time of great American corruption, greed, materialism and immoral values of the upper and middle class. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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The attempt to capture the American Dream is central to many novels, including "The Great Gatsby," and "The Coming of Age in Mississippi." ... The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. ... The Great Gatsby takes place in America during the roaring twenties, and is about the American Dream, and the uprise and downfall of those who attempt to reach its goals. Fizgerald keenly shows us how Jay Gatsby is one of these people. ... She is really the main "possession" that would complete Gatsby's American dream....

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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 Great Gatsby is about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. ... It shows how Gatsby was striving for the his goal and trying to accomplish it. ... Gatsby became corrupted because his main goal was to have Daisy. ... Gatsby needed to have an enormous mansion so he could feel...

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The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Throughout The Great Gatsby, the issue of class, wealth, and the American Dream is illustrated literally and metaphorically through the use of the automobile. ... (Page: 68) Gatsby's car is described as very luxurious, and very expensive. ... Gatsby's car was the nicest car that money could buy. ... The automobile in The Great Gatsby serves as a metaphor for the effect that the American Dream has on the different classes in society. ...

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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 Great Gatsby is about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. ... It shows how Gatsby was striving for the his goal and trying to accomplish it. ... Gatsby became corrupted because his main goal was to have Daisy. ... Gatsby needed to have an enormous mansion so he could feel confident enough to try to win Daisy. " That huge place over there? ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby shows the bad side of the American dream. ... From the beginning Nick is interested in Gatsby's wealth and Gatsby attributes to Nick falling into a search for the American Dream. "Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. ... However Gatsby is not finished with his American Dream. ... But this is impossible therefore Gatsby's dream is unattainable. ...

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For those settlers who were not so religiously inclined, America was still a fairyland, a land of great possibilities. ... In a way The Great Gatsby" is also a comment on this condition. ... 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. ... Gatsby must have his enormous mansion before he can feel confident enough to try to win Daisy. What Fitzgerald seems to be criticising in The Great Gatsby is not the American Dream itself but the corr...

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Jay Gatsby represents the flourishing side of the Dream. He seems to show that it is possible to achieve great success from nothing through the examples of his possessions; "I watched the guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the water. ... The light symbolises a beacon, which Gatsby hopes will lure Daisy to his house, but the "unreal" indicates that Gatsby is drawn to a fantasy vision of Daisy rather than reality, and so his dream is fragile. ... It seems as though Gatsby is glowing like a torch. ... Gatsby&#x...

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Fitzgerald portrayed the American Dream in The Great Gatsby through Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a prime example of someone who gained the American Dream through personal attractiveness and being well liked. ...

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Throughout history, The American Dream has been based on Freedom. Immigrants that came to America obtained more freedom then they would have else where, but even for the "Home of the Free", they are never truly free. Due to that fact that they are immigrants, forces them to hide their native in...

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