The American dream is a "recurring theme in American literature"(Pearson) and in American society. ... Daisy is stupefying and elusive, a crucial character who represents the American Dream (appositive phrase); when Gatsby unsuccessfully attempts to woo Daisy back, this unveils the false promise of the American Dream. ... Here, Daisy herself is the American dream, since her voice causes excitement within men in the same manner in which the American Dream provokes excitement. ... Daisy is evidently personified as the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby. ... Not only does Dais...

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The story follows a man named Jay Gatsby, who is Nick's neighbour; he is a man who has wrapped his life within the past five years around his sole desire to be with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. ... In this novel, the American Dream is a concept that is consistent throughout the entire story. ... Obtaining Daisy is part of his ultimate American Dream, which goes to show that people will do anything to gain the American Dream. ... This place represents those who have not even slightly obtained the American Dream; yet, nonetheless, they are still dreaming to achieve it in the long run. ......

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Scott Fitzgerald's story "Winter Dreams- reflects on this overzealous period. ... Within a few years, Dexter acquires great wealth and gets involved as one of Judy Jones' many affairs. ... In "Winter Dreams- Fitzgerald creates a complicated character, uses paradoxes to describe the relationships present in the story, and produces a person who molds his life around his dreams. ... For instance, as a boy Dexter dreams of a better future. ... During his life, Dexter Green's dreams affect every part of him. ...

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Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. ... Placing too much significance on dreams causes a person to misguidedly equate his identity with his desire to attain those dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's short story Winter Dreams establish that infatuation with dreams causes conflict, confusion, and loss of identity. ... Olaf's College within the first two weeks he was there because he could not bear the "lowly occupation" with which he paid his tuition. ... Dexter Green of Winter Dreams by F. ...

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For Nick, an innocent seeming place, easily changed into a hell of crushed dreams, death, and regret. ... This demonstrates how the people within an environment, can change or have a profound effect on other's values. ... Kids going to college are following a dream and being optimistic. ... The location and the people within that location both have a profound affect on someone's physical and mental state. As well, a location that represents a dream and passion can easily become a toxic environment. ...

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Winter Dreams The twenties were an amazing time full of hopes, dreams, and for the wealthy parties. ... Within the short story Winter Dreams, by Fitzgerald, there were many of the same themes as that in The Great Gatsby such as infidelity as well as similarities between the characters. ... In both The Great Gatsby and Winter dreams, the two leading ladies start out in love with a poor man. ... Both The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams differ in part because of the way each ends. ... Probably the most eminent similarity between The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams was the theme of infidelity. ...

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Within the stories, The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams, the author, F. ... Within Winter Dreams, Dexter Green goes through the same basic experiences as Gatsby, with a few minor changes. ... With the literature, The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams, F. ...

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Symbolically it is the American Dream, specifically it is Gatsby's American Dream. ... I believe it represents Gatsby's American dream, Daisy, and the old American dream. ... The green light on Daisy's side represents that Gatsby needs Daisy and he can almost touch it but it is not within his reach. ... The green light represented a dream within a dream. ...

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The definition of the American Dream varies from one person to another. ... She crushed all hope that he ever had for achieving his dream. ... Fitzgerald not only tells a story within The Great Gatsby, but also contradicts the stereotypical perfect life. ... The theme of this song is constantly stressed within the American Dream. ... There are many issues that can be analyzed within The Great Gatsby. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald also has an underlying message, that one should always aspire to fulfill their dreams. ... This was an ideal time period for his book because that was a time of fun and dreams, when nothing couldn't be accomplished. Young people threw parties and lived life to its full extent, fulfilling their dreams of good times and fun. ... He aimed to make his dream come true. ... But, when disquised within an author's writing, it can be exposed, and one can know the author's innermost thoughts and dreams....

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A timeless statement by Thomas Jefferson that epitomizes what the American Dream originally stood for upon the creation of our great country. ... Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... Gatsby is thus the novel's representative of the American Dream, and the story of his youth borrows on one of the dream's oldest myths: that of the self-made man. According to Dream, Design, and Interpretation in The Great Gatsby, James Gatz's attempt to become Jay Gatsby, his attempt to live out his invented history, entails an attempt to realize his "unutterable" dream. ... The Great Gatsby ...

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So not only had the American Dream been corrupted by greed, but also by the fact that people would go to any extent to be wealthy. ... But instead, he focuses on pleasure, which corrupts the American Dream even more. ... And all of these bad things about Gatsby came about because of his greed for wealth and pleasure, both of which are two big factors leading to the failure of the American Dream. Within the American Dream it is important to have a meaningful life, yet Gatsby's accomplishments in life were not held in high regard by others. ...

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Fitzgerald exhibits the moral deterioration, the desire to obtain the "American Dream", and how American ideals are different with the actual social conditions that exist in society, through Nick Caraway's eyes in the novel The Great Gatsby. Each one of the characters in the novel, have a certain dream that they want to live. ... She lied herself to the top- within her golfing career and personality. ... Happiness can only be derived from within, from self worth and self-appreciation. It tells us, that we can't obtain our "dreams" at a store, but at a place deep inside ourselves...

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Daisy's affliction from Tom's affair and Gatsby's obsessive yet kind personality help Fitzgerald depict an avaricious society striving on selfish motives and forgetting the social grace and reachable dreams Americans once needed. Whereas the motive within Gatsby that drives him towards success is Daisy and his fantasy of having a life with her, Tom, Daisy, Mrytle's and most of society's motives lie behind money and a superficial lifestyle. ... In contrast, Gatsby remained subjected to his overwhelming emotions and his dream of being with the girl he has always loved...

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In the end his pursuit causes him to fall in love with money because of its overwhelming presence within his dream. ... The main character in the book, Jay Gatsby, was affluent, but it was all part of a dream, a dream that never expires, a dream that stayed with Gatsby till his dying day. ... It may have been Gatsby's dream that helped him become so distinguished, but it was also his dream that destroyed him. ... Gatsby's dream causes him to require only the best. ... Daisy had turned into "Gatsby's corrupt dream- (52). ...

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Within this bleakness Fitzgerald has chosen to write about Jay Gatsby, a man who symbolizes the American Dream, who has "an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I (Nick) have never found in any other person." ... Nick follows Gatsby's dream, that dream is Daisy Fay Buchanan. ... Fitzgerald has given him this set of characteristics to show that he's not perfect, that no one within "The Great Gatsby" is. ... The characters live and breathe a godless society but the dream sets Gatsby apart. Nick lacks that dream but he admires it. ...

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This narrative, which reminds so many of their own hopes and dreams, uses a story of lavish characters being analyzed by a war-hardened, middle-class man named Nick Carraway to portray the American Dream. ... Gatsby's dream was Daisy, and ultimately, he died searching for a dream he could never attain. ... Scott Fitzgerald created a truly unique story with brilliant wordplay, engaging drama, and a tragic end to a man and his dreams. ... This man Gastby was perhaps the greatest lie of any that has ever lived within America. ... This novel truly shows what happens to people who become ob...

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The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes that white civilization is going to pieces and will be utterly submerged by the other races. ...

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Aaron Fulbright February 20, 2003 The Great Gatsby Essay An ideal life consisting of wealth, fame, and love were the essentials of the foundation of The American Dream in the 1920's. ... Although obtaining The American Dream early in life, Gatsby's success is ultimately doomed due to his immoral lifestyle. ... Initiating an affair with Daisy, Gatsby's success of The American Dream became within reach. ... From a spectator's view, Gatsby fulfilled The American Dream for a temporary moment in time. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts...

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In a country where you were supposed to be able to have endless possibilities to live out the "American Dream", it was never reachable. ... This bay also divides two classes within American society. ... Daisy's East Egg upbringing doesn't allow her to enjoy the vulgarity that comes with the new rich within West Egg, thus presenting a prominent variation between the lifestyle in West Egg and that in East Egg. ... The West Egg is the image of vulgar consumption, the East Egg is the image of moral defiance, and together they show how impossible social mobility is, thus rendering the Ame...

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This narrative, which reminds so many of their own hopes and dreams, uses a story filled with lavish characters and locations, all analyzed by a war-hardened, middle-class man named Nick Carraway. ... Gatsby's dream was Daisy, and ultimately, he died searching for a dream he could never attain. ... Scott Fitzgerald created a truly unique story with brilliant wordplay, engaging drama, and a tragic end to a man and his dreams. ... This man Gastby was perhaps the greatest lie of any that has ever lived within America. ... This novel truly shows what happens to people who become obsessed wit...

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Writing in America was therefore subsumed within the one great literature-English literature- Henry James's has noted; No state, in the European sense of the word, and indeed barely a specific natural name. ... Scott Fitzgerald 91896-1940) projected the American dream in his novels THE GREAT GATSBT and TENDER IS THE NIGHT. We could better understand his writings if we place it in the context of the events that took place in America then, what is called the jazz age, the generation in flames or the lost generation, Fitzgerald became the spokesman of all this, jazz being the lively...

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"The Great Gatsby" is a novel that explores the dynamics of life within various social classes in the 1920s. ... While Gatsby shows off his house to Daisy, all the elaborate items within Gatsby's home causes Daisy to come to the overwhelming realization that Gatsby acquired it all for her. ... For most, their dreams have shifted from valuing good character within a relationship to basing their love on material things and excessive wealth. Daisy aiming for less extravagant dreams than she can achieve, and lowering her self-worth by basing it off of wealth and possessions, reflects the over...

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(Parker I 1) She becomes accustomed to trading sex for security, a characteristic exchange it appears to her, within her society. ... Hazel dreams of the relief that death will bring. "She dreamed by day of never again having to put on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never being a good sport. ...

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"No writer has more closely personified the glamour and heartbreak of the American dream... 'not just the American dream, but the human dream,'" ("Fitzgerald" 30). ... His quest for the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth; he is a self-made millionaire, a nouveau riche. ... Within the character of Jay Gatsby we can see the dueling parts of Fitzgerald's own personality. ...

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