In this quote, he describes that every man will have some dream in his life, and though he may spend his whole life dwelling on such a hope, he may not even take the time to understand it. ... "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," Nick acclaims in the novel. ... Another quote follows: "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. ... Though Gatsby may have been the base of the corrupti...

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I believe that Fitzgerald's novel does meet the criteria of 'Valuable literature' and will explain why I think this in this essay. ... " This leads us to the next theme which is the American dream. 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 moves to New York to become a bond salesman in hopes of making his own fortune. ... Gatsby is also in pursuit of the American dream in the novel. ... I think that Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy is part of his America...

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Gatsby is thus the novel's representative of the American Dream, and the story of his youth borrows on one of the dream's oldest myths: that of the self-made man. ... As Nick puts it, "There must have been moment even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams...no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... Gatsby ultimately knows in his heart that his lifestyle with be his eventual downfall and that her fervor for only the finest aspects have life, have corrupted his destiny of reclaiming his aristocratic roots. ... As Nick Carraway n...

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He builds his identity based on this money, just as his cultural surroundings would have him do. ... I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong. " Gatsby's illegalities allow him to "brush shoulders " with the wealthy. ... The greatest change to the American culture of the 1920's came in the form of the death of the American Dream. ... Specifically the deterioration of this dream in an era of unparalleled prosperity and material excess. ... An additional note for interest is that there was a very famous flapper named Josephine Baker who would ...

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Secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover described the rise of a freewheeling economy and a heightened sense of individual liberty after World War I as the "New Era " . When World War I ended in 1918 several young Americans who had fought in the war returned to America with a heightened disillusion of reality, as the horrors of the war made everyday life and social morality of the early 1900's seem trivial. ... Through this, Fitzgerald demonstrates how empty and rotten have become the lives of people who devote themselves to nothing more than accumulating money and social standing. ... Many w...

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At the very beginning of the novel, Nick comments on his honesty, "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known" (Fitzgerald 59). ... Although his honesty is an important aspect of Nick's speech, his straightforward storytelling is his most defining quality, "I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it" (Fitzgerald 29). ... Gatsby uses his catchphrase the very first time he meets...

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Vile Bodies enhances the understanding of the Great Gatsby in this way through the satirical naming sense, suggesting that the names given in the Great Gatsby too have their own unique purposes. ... Lois Tyson, in her book "Critical Theory Today" agrees with this interpretation, saying that money shows how "the American dream not only fails to fulfill its promise but also contributes to the decay of personal values.... I didn't know," before throwing her smoldering cigarette dangerously close towards four open "churns" of petrol, only escaping fatal injury t...

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In The Great Gatsby we have the protagonist Daisy Buchanan who is described as a lovely, beautiful, irresponsible, spoiled lady, who has shift to a self-fashioning female and is completely dependable on men. ... The disillusionment of World War I left a sense of emptiness and sadness which the characters seem to manage only by escaping the reality. ... In the novel she sits on a wine cask exposing her skin while peasants in Basque dance around her in a circle symbolizing the men that have attached themselves to Brett. ... In In Our Time when Krebs returns home, he tells us how the girls in his...

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