A timeless statement by Thomas Jefferson that epitomizes what the American Dream originally stood for upon the creation of our great country. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to illustrate the corruption and eventual downward spiral of the American Dream to the vulgar pursuit of wealth and materialism in the 1920s. ... Gatsby's life is much like the American Dream, in that, America in the 1920s had become a place where nothing could be attained and attempting to transcend ones social status was futile. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American Dream in the 1...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate