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. ... Daisy is evidently personified as the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby. ... It is economically impossible for all of us to achieve the American Dream, which is what Fitzgerald, is saying when Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby. ... In other words, the upper class stays in the upper class, and the lower class stays in the lower class, which clearly presented in The Great ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's highly accomplished novel, The American Dream, he portrays the longing for the American Dream as a significant part of ones life, very familiar to society as a corrupted essence of reality and ideals that the characters, especially Jay Gatsby, truly represent. ... In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth. ... This quote also reveals that maybe even Daisy was not good ...

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For those settlers who were not so religiously inclined, America was still a fairyland, a land of great possibilities. ... So that when Fitzgerald produced Gatsby, modelled no doubt on the writer's own faith in life, he seemed to have created a character who represented an early American in whom the Dream was still very much alive. ... 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 p...

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