Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick states at the start of the story that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments," (Fitzgerald, 1) and appears to keep to his word. ... Nick states that his invitation to Gatsby's party was "signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand" (Fitzgerald, 53). ... After the car accident that he assumes Gatsby is guilty of causing, he responds to Gatsby standing around Da...

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Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... (Fitzgerald 104). ... (Fitzgerald 92). ... (Fitzgerald 171). ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to symbolize a person in whom the Dream is still very much alive as part of a vanished past where America was seen as a land of great opportunity. ...

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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 states this quotation through Nick Carraway's narration in The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald's use of individual speech patterns that define the characters in his novel aids in furthering the renowned characterization in The Great Gatsby. ... 'San Francisco'" (Fitzgerald 65). ... Finally, Gatsby's carefree attitude is clearly demonstrated through the lavish parties that he throws, "Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusem...

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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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It is interesting that, in tragic pieces of literature such as The Great Gatsby by F. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Gatsby muses, "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." ( Fitzgerald 95). ... However, whilst Freud argues his theory using the paternal relationship between Icarus and Daedalus, it is the contrast between masculinity and femininity which drives the plot in The Great Gatsby and King Lear. ... This carelessness stands in stark contrast to the way he so arrogantly discusses his imports, yet Daisy takes great pleasur...

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Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby' appears to be just another novel about post world war one America, but viewing it as such would only be scratching the surface of a much deeper, darker and depressing story. ... I believe that Fitzgerald's novel does meet the criteria of 'Valuable literature' and will explain why I think this in this essay. ... Society The cast of 'The Great Gatsby' live in the jazz era of 1920's America which was a rather carefree era which is evident with all the lavish and wasteful and over the top parties that Gatsby t...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. Taking place on the West and East Eggs of Long Island, The Great Gatsby tells the tale of Jay Gatsby (an incredibly wealthy but yet a complete mystery of a man) and of his undying love for Daisy Buchanan. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of lavish parties filled with drunken orgies of sheer debauchery, love affairs, and murder, but yet it still manages to show the innocence and naivety of the very people that sinfully tarnish the world in which ...

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