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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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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