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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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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In a way Gatsby is in fact a perfect example of the American Dream in the way his exploits the rich though underhand means. ... The greatest change to the American culture of the 1920's came in the form of the death of the American Dream. Despite being set around New York The Great Gatsby is a mediation of the 1920's America as a whole in the sense of the American dream. Specifically the deterioration of this dream in an era of unparalleled prosperity and material excess. ... It was unquenchable desire for wealth and pleasure, it was hedonism, that made a casualty of the American dre...

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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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Within the discovery of Tom's mistress and Daisy's bored unhappiness, he hears through many quickly forgotten words and unfinished conversations of a Mr. ... Gatsby had a dream, a dream of acquiring that green light representing two things the color of the U.S. currency and the selfish and superficial love of Daisy Faye. No price was too high to achieve that dream. ... Within this center were the sub-contrasting areas, West Egg and East Egg. ... It is the story of all our dreaming. ...

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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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Fitzgerald also incorporates color, weather, and seasons to better display these cities and the characters living within them. ... This is the place where the deaths and dreams for Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and George Wilson, these characters die due to misconception and anger. ... Every night Gatsby grasps for the green light in hopes that his longed for dreams will finally come evident. The barely visible green light also represent the faint love that Daisy feels for Gatsby, but Gatsby sees this beautiful glowing green light that invokes power, pleasure, and love within him towards Daisy. ....

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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. ... However, as Nick Carraway himself is immersed within the story, it makes for a more subjective narrative. ...

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Lois Tyson, in her book "Critical Theory Today" agrees with this interpretation, saying that money shows how "the American dream not only fails to fulfill its promise but also contributes to the decay of personal values.... Moreover, this relationship is fragile and soon shatters when Nina deserts Adam, and becomes engaged to "Ginger," a wealthier candidate, within a few days. ...

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He obliged and they were married within the year ("F. ... "They both represent a dramatization of the false dream of money, which Fitzgerald had been fascinated with all his life- ("Structure of The Great Gatsby- 1). ...

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