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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The Great Gatsby by F. ... Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream using multiple symbols in his book, The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald uses the light as a symbol of the chase for what Gatsby wants: Daisy. ... 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. ... 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. ... The yellow car in the story is a symbol that the enormous wealth Gatsby has, is corrupt. ... The car is a symbol of Gatsby's money and status, and shows how he has achieved the Dream by working from rags to riches. ...

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This is easily shown to us in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. ... Throughout the story Fitzgerald uses many symbols such as the Green light seen at the end of Daisy's dock, the wild and illustrious parties thrown by Gatsby, and the eyes of Doctor T. ... Fitzgerald uses these symbols to represent his true, literary voice. ... One symbol in witch this is shown is that of the "Eyes of Doctor T. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses the symbols of: Daisy's Green light, Gatsby's wild parties, and the "Eyes of Doctor T. ...

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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 main characters in Fitzgerald's novel are symbols of some aspects of the American Dream. ... 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. ... 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. ... In the novel, the symbol of the green light is mentioned many times. ... 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. ... Fitzgerald meticulously shows in The Great Gatsby that the American Dream is a state of b...

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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. For most Americans, the automobile was simply a means of transportation, but for the upper crust of society that wasn't concerned about commuting to a factory, the car was a symbol of wealth and prosperity. ... 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 soci...

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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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