"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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate