It is through the narrator's dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power, and further, how the world of high society lacks any sense of morals or consequence. ... Despite her efforts she is still only a mistress, and at the end of the day she must go home to a small apartment above her husband's garage, which she describes as being "unprosperous and bare". ... Her husband's hard work and her own affair with Tom can never result in the realization of Myrtle'...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is through the narrator's dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power, and further, how the world of high society lacks any sense of morals or consequence. ... Despite her efforts she is still only a mistress, and at the end of the day she must go home to a small apartment above her husband's garage, which she describes as being "unprosperous and bare". ... Her husband's hard work and her own affair with Tom can never result in the realization of Myrtle'...

• Word Count: 1307
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It is through the narrator's dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power, and further, how the world of high society lacks any sense of morals or consequence. ... Despite her efforts she is still only a mistress, and at the end of the day she must go home to a small apartment above her husband's garage, which she describes as being "unprosperous and bare". ... Her husband's hard work and her own affair with Tom can never result in the realization of Myrtle'...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This green light is located, at the end of the dock of Daisy and her husband's house, across the water. ... The description of Gatsby's mansion shows the distorted ideals of what money meant to him: "The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard "it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. ... Through the usage of the color green, the reader is given a deeper understanding of Gatsby's ideals and his in...

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• Grade Level: High School

Success is once again ideal for happiness during the twenties. ... Gatsby is raised believing rich living is ideal and he saw this as reality when he met Daisy. ... A Woman is known as a "mythic ideal- (94) and is the "ultimate quest of the hero- (94). Therefore, Gatsby is not solely searching for the values of the American dream, more for the mythic ideal. ... Myrtle's husband George sets out to find who is responsible for his wife's death. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's highly accomplished novel, The American Dream, he portrays the longing for the American Dream as a significant part of ones life, very familiar to society as a corrupted essence of reality and ideals that the characters, especially Jay Gatsby, truly represent. ... This quote can also be tied with the fact that Daisy Buchanan doesn't comprehend the facts of why she should leave her husband, Tom, if he was having an affair that she was well aware of. ... This shows that her dreams are based on the fact that she thought she would be happy if her husband was a gentle...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the years there has become a mythos of ""the great American novel", a novel about American ideals so well written it could be interesting to anyone. ... Her husband Tom is equally corrupted, he to has ended up caring only about the luxury and his status in society. ...

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Gatsby's house was built just for the purpose of impressing Daisy with his material objects, which is a sign of how the corruption was affecting how he used money to achieve his ideal. ... See how the whole front of it catches the light."5 he thinks that when Daisy see's his home that she will choose him over her husband , Tom. ... Gatsby told Daisy to state that she never loved her husband, Tom Buchanan, and state her everlasting love for him. ... In the end Daisy's truelove stayed with her "brutish" husband, Tom. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nick's "second cousin once removed" was Daisy Buchanan who lived with her husband Tom in East Egg, just "[a]cross the courtesy bay" from West Egg (p. 10). ... Myrtle Wilson's sister, Catherine, declares that Myrtle was "crazy about [George, her husband] for a while" (p. 39). ... The fact that Myrtle's entire opinion about her husband changed when she discovered he borrowed his wedding suit demonstrates how fickle and petty she is. ...

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However, modernistic ideals contradict commonplace traditional American values as in this steadfast hope. ... In this case, Blanche has strong faith in her ideal to "count on the kindness of strangers"(Cite this). ... After her romantic misfortune of discovering her husbands homosexuality, Blanche begins to search for shelter in strangers. ...

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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. In F. Scott Fitzger...

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Since the 1800's, people's drive for wealth has been stronger than any other factor in their lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his method to create the appearance and personality of imaginary persons and reveals their character. Many people marry solely for money, and completely disregard their feeli...

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The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes that white civilization is going to pieces and will be utterly submerged by the other races. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Gatsby introduces a "Platonic" conception as illustrated in the previous passage, which means "confined to words, theories, or ideals, and not leading to practical action." ... This is because Gatsby thinks of himself as a higher power, which inevitably causes conflict with reality when Daisy would not agree to leave Tom, her rich misogynist husband. ...

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• Grade Level: High School