World War One was over and people were reveling in the materialism that came at the end of it, such as newly mass-produced commodities like motorcars and radios. ... Scott Fitzgerald, is an exploration of the American Dream, as it existed during a corrupt period in history. The Great Gatsby is a description of the decay of the American Dream and the desire for money and materialism. ... The ashes in the Valley act as a symbol of the death of the American Dream. ... Essentially, it was every American's ambition to make loads of money and not work hard. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A timeless statement by Thomas Jefferson that epitomizes what the American Dream originally stood for upon the creation of our great country. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to illustrate the corruption and eventual downward spiral of the American Dream to the vulgar pursuit of wealth and materialism in the 1920s. ... Gatsby's life is much like the American Dream, in that, America in the 1920s had become a place where nothing could be attained and attempting to transcend ones social status was futile. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American Dream in the 1...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. ... Money is clearly identified as a reason for the death of the American dream. It becomes easily entangled with the idea of hope and success and replaces their positions in the American Dream with materialism. ... The biggest collapse, however, is of the American Dream...

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• Grade Level: High School

The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. ... Money is clearly identified as a reason for the death of the American dream. It becomes easily entangled with the idea of hope and success and replaces their positions in the American Dream with materialism. ... The biggest collapse, however, is of the American Dream...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. ... Money is clearly identified as a reason for the death of the American dream. It becomes easily entangled with the idea of hope and success and replaces their positions in the American Dream with materialism. ... The biggest collapse, however, is of the American Dream...

• Word Count: 1310
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Chapter 25: Transition to Modern America (the 1920s) Introduction Mass Production: the result was the creation of a New America, on e in which individualism was sacrificed to conformity as a part of the price to be paid for a new era of abundance. ... It is in the 1920s that we can find the roots of modern America as we know today. ... Middle- and upper-class Americans were the groups who thrived during the 1920s. ... The # of African Americans graduating from college rose from 391 in 1920 to 1,903 by 1929. ... Nearly all the writers, black as well as white, cried out against the...

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The two decades between World War I and World War II were a golden age of American fiction. ... From the understanding and annotation of the whole age, he saw the fall of American values: American Dream. 1. ... Car is like house, tending to be associated with the materialism of American Dream. ... However, what makes difference is Fitzgerald universalized his personal experience and widened his own horizon, successfully building a bridge between individual and society, which came to endow the hero Gatsby a profound symbolic meaning: Gatsby is the epitome and symbol of self-mad...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate