The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman are both explorations of the elusive and often unreachable vision of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby, the main character in The Great Gatsby, and Willy Loman, the main character in Death of a Salesman, both symbolize the American Dream. ... On the other hand, in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman believes the American dream is to be not only wealthy but also happy and successful. ... In the beginning of the play he tells his wife about his recent trip to New York. ... He is nothing but a working class salesman that cannot provide ...

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Throughout the play "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller portrays the American Dream and how Willy Lowman and his family are trying to achieve it. ... Willy is complaining about builders because they cut down the trees where he and Biff would swing. ... Some other authors to write about the American Dream are F. ... They actually believed that on it would come true because they would think about it very often. The more they talked about it the closer they seemed to it. ...

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Nick was a struggling bond salesman that just move next to that big place on the island, Gatsby's place. ... Both of them paid attention about money more than anything. ... Nick always narrate about how great Gatsby was. ... He ruined his day because of this fact about Gatsby. ... That conflict led to Gatsby's death and it showed Nick about the reality of life. ...

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There are two sides to the Dream; one is the idealised version, which indicates that the Dream is about belief in immeasurable possibility, that there are no limits to what can be achieved. ... Myrtle has "an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering." ... "Drifted" shows they moved about, forever seeking something. The idea that Daisy has never had to "plan" for anything, hints that she has no ideas about her future. ... By becoming a salesman, he has embraced his desire, and turned his back on the original, pioneering spirit of the A...

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Symbols are used to represent something else by association, resemblance, or convention, for example works like Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, and The Great Gatsby. ... After reading and watching The Great Gatsby the main idea that comes to everyone's mind is the fact that Gatsby and Daisy's relationship fell about, because of money, power, and greed. ... It is mainly about the fall of the American Dream in the 1920s. This film shows a completely different perspective of the American peoples social and moral values, and shows how the pursuit to wealth and money makes people...

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Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby' appears to be just another novel about post world war one America, but viewing it as such would only be scratching the surface of a much deeper, darker and depressing story. ... However, to be considered as such it would have to meet the criteria of being able to explore and deal with important philosophical and moral topics of importance such as: love, class, wealth or death. ... The American Dream/ Wealth/ Dreams and Goals Many characters have the American dream in this novel such as Nick Carraway, the narrator throughout the novel, who m...

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His mother's father was a self made Irish immigrant millionaire, and his father was a salesman who married above his social class and squandered the family fortune (Reynolds 2360). ... In 1917 Fitzgerald first suspected that Ginevra was engaged and wrote about his presumption in his ledger (Lehan "Careless People- 70). ... The same daisy (yellow within/ white without) relates her to the books many "eggs- and implies that she is not a daisy but a rotten egg because she does not contain the seeds of life but of death (Stark 61). ... In a letter sent to John Peale Bishop, Fitzgerald tal...

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