All people can have a different answer to that question. ... "Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. ... "But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone, he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntary I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock"(22). ... "There mus...

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Gatsby later became a soldier in World War I. ... He immediately fell for her and felt that he must have her for his dream to be complete. ... People no longer have to worry legally about equality. ... I dream of wealth and popularity, but most importantly, I dream of a world where my children will grow up safe and happy. I dream of a world where no one is prejudged because of their skin color or gender. ...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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I"ll pay you every penny back." ... I don't know- what I"m supposed to want." ... Willy realises that if he had have gone to explore the world with his brother, he too may have achieved the success, which Ben reaped. ... When Charley offers him a job instead of having Willy borrowing money, Willy replies; "I got a job, I told you that! ... Gatsby's mysterious attributes are shown to have been achieved through crime. ...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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The ashes in the Valley act as a symbol of the death of the American Dream. ... The people that lived in West Egg were relatively new to having money, they made plenty very quickly and were not used to the new wealthy status. ... Nick Carraway's first vision of Gatsby was when he: Stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have swore he was trembling I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock . ... I don't think he had ever reall...

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Mellencamp sang in the song "Small Town" (released in 1985), "No I cannot forget where it is I come from.... Daisy Buchannan is married to Tom Buchannan, whose house in East Egg is "even more elaborate then I [Nick Carraway] expected, a Georgian Colonial Mansion" (6). ... When Gatsby finally meets Daisy and has her in his reach, he says, "If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home from across the bay, you always have a green light" (92). ... The American Dream is eluding Gatsby. ... The green light always disappears, having tricked us into gullibil...

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I am going to show how effective Fitzgerald is at portraying the materialism in the American society throughout his novel "The great Gatsby". ... Daisy is Gatsby's dream - like the American Dream. ... I feel daisy made the right choice for herself as her and Tom are just as materialistic and as careless as each other. ... I think this is a good piece of literature as it is reflective and symbolic even after its time. ... I truly appreciated this novel as it really made me see how careless rich people can be and the disgusting way society can work making it to have such an impact on ...

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To get this happiness, Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream; to do this he must have wealth and power. ... We see when Myrtle asks Tom to buy her a dog, "I want to get one of those dogs...I want to get one for the apartment" (31). ... You have to keep after them all the time" (36). ... questioned Nick, "Yes...but of course I'll say I was" (151). ... Through the years the citizens of America have corrupted this dream and turned it into something quite opposite of the original meaning -- greed. ...

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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. ... "She didn't have a good time. " " (pg.109). ... Obtaining Daisy is part of his ultimate American Dream, which goes to show that people will do anything to gain the American Dream. ... This place represents those who have not even slightly obtained the American Dream; yet, nonetheless, they are still dreaming to achieve it in the long run. ... The two eggs represent the people of New York that have achieved the American Dream. ...

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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? ... I love it" (page95). The tainted dream was so empty that having accouterments of wealth could even incite feelings of love. ... I always watch for the longest day of the year and miss it." ...

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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? ... I love it" (page95). The tainted dream was so empty that having accouterments of wealth could even incite feelings of love. ... I always watch for the longest day of the year and miss it." ...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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It is a cream color but it evolves into a yellow instrument of death and destruction used to try to fix their vain attempts at love The Symbol I). ... Daisy is pure her actions confirm otherwise, she is a big fazade (The Symbol I). ... When nick takes a look at the books on the wall, he sees the edges of the pages have never been cut "know when to stop too didn't cut the pages.""(Fitzgerald 56) telling us that they have never even been read. ... He must have all this before he feels confident enough to try to win Daisy with his materials "Gatsby stands for a deeper malaise in the cu...

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THE AFFIRMATION OF THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN A SOCIETY WHICH HAS DISTORTED THAT DREAM. 1) WHAT IS THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM? ... Through the narrator, Carraway: "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart." ... Daisy might also be: "I"m glad it's a girl. ... (p. 100) "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but ...

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"Howard: I don't want you representing us." ... Just recently Troy Aikman was cut with out any notice after leading the Dallas Cowboys to three super bowls because he had to many concussions and was having back problems. ... Their dreams may not be the same but they evolved from the general ideas and concepts of the American Dream. ... Without dreams one would have no hope, no desire to continue living when times are bad. One should not underestimate the American Dream. ...

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The Dream and the Reality Lavish parties, twirling dresses, dapper men, and illegal alcohol fill the roaring times of the 1920s. F. Scott Fitzgerald's story "Winter Dreams- reflects on this overzealous period. The tale tells how sometimes even with great motivation dreams cannot turn into reali...

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I cannot cry. I cannot care. ... He has good intentions, but is overtaken by the want and the challenge of something he could never have. ... "I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. ...

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and when I described him- I was half asleep- she said in the strangest voice that it must be the man she used to know.... There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... Gatsby saw, but did not truly believe that Daisy has gotten has gotten married and had a child, "Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. ... Fitzgerald describes the books as, "asolutely real- have pages and everything [] knew when to stop - didn't cut the pages"(45...

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Unbridled materialism can be terrible and can have ghastly and horrid affects on the society, and of course, the American dream. ... "She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time. ... "And I like large parties-they"re so intimate. ... It has changed from dreaming to be able to raise a family comfortably and to have your children do better than you did, to the dream of having more money than you know what to do with. ... CARS BOUGHT AND SOLD-and I followed Tom inside"(29). ...

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In the text Gatsby is a newly wealthy World War I veteran who has settled in "West Egg" after acquiring a large sum of money after the war. ... In doing this he is truly attempting to fulfill his "American Dream" of having everything and more. ... Also the destruction of this American Dream is shown through Gatsby's wild and decadent parties. ... Eckelburg" to show the disintegration of the "American Dream" through the corruption of the upper and middle class. ... The 1920s may have passed long ago, but their spirit and legacy will live forever....

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Yet, Dexter's prosperity does not help him to have Judy; what he owns is just a moment of 'exquisite excitability'. ... Now, the satisfaction accompanying his adventure has gone; his disillusionment abandons him with hollowness, and 'even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.' ... However, at one point of her life, she wonders, 'I'm more beautiful than anybody else Why can't I be happy?' ... I used to fantasize about employed fellows and...

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The Great Gatsby and the American Dream F. ... Automobiles became the symbol of status, the thing everyone needed to have. ... she cried pointing 'I love it '" (Fitzgerald 95-96) Gatsby brags to Daisy about his wardrobe: "I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. ... "She is for sale, but he doesn't have the right type of currency." ... "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. ...

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In order to do this he must have wealth and power. ... Gatsby's dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where they all have the opportunity to get what they want. Those who try to attain the American Dream without honesty are doomed to have their dreams remain unattainable or to have the dream become meaningless due to their dishonesty (like Jordan's cheating takes the meaning out of her 'wins'). ... "Yes...but of course I'll say I was," (Fitzgerald 151). ... He is sure that he can have his dream with wealth and influence. ...

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Placing too much significance on dreams causes a person to misguidedly equate his identity with his desire to attain those dreams. ... Despite Gatsby's effort to conceal his social origins, with time his history is uncovered by Nick: I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. ... Having achieved prodigious wealth, Gatsby lives in "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty". ... Dexter Green of Winter Dreams by F. ... Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his wi...

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