This quote by Thorstein Veblen provides an accurate depiction of life in America in The Great Gatsby. ... Gatsby used his great parties to demonstrate his wealth in attempts to reach his ultimate goal; having Daisy. ... Daisy is so euphoric with the success and security that Gatsby can offer. ... Tom and Daisy let Gatsby take the fall for all their mistakes. ... We see this as we note other characters attempt to cross the social lines over to the status of East Egg, their moral integrity drops. ...

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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. ... What Fitzgerald seems to be criticising in The Great Gatsby is not the American Dream itself but the corruption of the American Dream. ... In the chapter-by-chapter analysis, especially in the Notes, Th...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has endured as a classic glimpse into a period of time that is now referred to as the Roaring 20s - an American decade marked by extravagance, self-gratification and indifference. ... On its simplest level, The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway's narration and recollection of events stemming from his meeting and subsequent interaction with Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York. ... The Great Gatsby is, in some respects, somewhat autobiographical in that Fitzgerald relied on his life experiences to form certain aspects of the n...

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