"Gatsby, the "mythic" embodiment of the American Dream, is shown to us in all his immature romanticism. ... Gatsby shows the reader his immature signs of romanticism by thinking that Daisy would wait for him to come back. ...

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According to the Holy Bible, "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil" (Nelson 1653). F. Scott Fitzgerald apparently agreed with this biblical concept in writing the novel The Great Gatsby. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a great deal of symbolism in order to illustrate how the...

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John Cougar Mellencamp is an extremely famous and rich all-American singer who grew up in a small town; surely he achieved the American Dream. Mellencamp sang in the song "Small Town" (released in 1985), "No I cannot forget where it is I come from." Mellencamp expresses that even though he has a lot...

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Scott Fitzgerald's Novels", Grindin agrees that Gatsby's efforts are wasted on Daisy and states, "Jay Gatsby, the subject of the novel, is the embodiment of the American Dream. . . its impossible romanticism, its belief in its capacity to recapture a past that may never had existed" (Grindin 89). ...

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Expounding from the collision of ideas derived from Romanticism, and an endeavour to explain knowledge that was yet unknown, came the beginning wave of works which marked the first decade of the twentieth century. ...

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