The two decades between World War I and World War II were a golden age of American fiction. ... From the understanding and annotation of the whole age, he saw the fall of American values: American Dream. 1. ... Car is like house, tending to be associated with the materialism of American Dream. ... However, what makes difference is Fitzgerald universalized his personal experience and widened his own horizon, successfully building a bridge between individual and society, which came to endow the hero Gatsby a profound symbolic meaning: Gatsby is the epitome and symbol of self-mad...

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