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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