Ultimately both Fitzgerald and Miller see the American Dream as a failure. The American Dream, it's interpretation and the ways of achieving it, are very important underlying themes in both Arthur Miller's "Death Of A Salesman" (1949) and F. ... Gatsby's determination to succeed came from his love for a girl, Daisy, a girl he was not worthy of because of his financial status. ...

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Realism is a literary form of writing. It can be defined as "the faithful representation of reality" or "verisimilitude", which means genuineness or similarity. Realism also means a particular kind of subject matter, especially the portrayal of middle-class life. Studies of documented history an...

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