Written during the 1920s, The Great Gatsby accurately depicts lives of excess and false hopes during that time. The moods, tones, and themes of The Great Gatsby obviously reflect the 1920s culture in America. ... The main theme of The Great Gatsby, the moral and social decay of the 1920s, represents Fitzgerald's view of his time. ... The mood of The Great Gatsby, hot in the middle of summer, reveals something about why characters act the way they do. ... In conclusion, The Great Gatsby somewhat accurately portrays many different aspects of the 1920's. ...

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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. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925). ... Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is set in the 1920's, in Eastern America in a period well known as the "Jazz Age", during prohibition in America. ... However in his short life Gatsby was never truly happy. ... This makes Gatsby very rich and allows him to live the extravagant lifestyle he dreamt of. ...

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The Great Gatsby is considered to be the "great American novel" by many because the main character of the story is said to "embody the innocence of the American dream." ... Critics say that Fitzgerald tells of this corruption in many of his novels, The Great Gatsby included. ... The underlying theme in all of this is that Gatsby uses money to form personal relationships. ... In chapter four of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald tells the reader that the American dream was originally about "discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness." ... Scott Fitzgerald proves this fact in The Great G...

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In Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald showed us that one of the major topic explored in this novel is the sociology of wealth, especially how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country rich families, who had important names. ... Also the other major theme is American dream, which symbol is Gatsby's Dream. ... In Nick's view, Gatsby's capacity to dream makes him "great- despite his flaws and eventual undoing. While reading Great Gatsby, I also found two important symbols, they are the green light at the end of Daisy's d...

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The Setting in the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. ... The setting also is symbiolic of Fritzgerald's satire of 1920s New York lifestyle , most important of all , brings out the themes of American dream , money and romantic love. ... "It took me (Gatsby) just three years to earn the money that bought it ( his mansion) " Gatsby's mind evolves around the American Dream , he thinks that with money , he could buy back loss time and love between Daisy and him , even though their relationship has ended five years ago and Daisy is now married with a child. " "Can't repeat t...

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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about American lives amongst society in the 1920's. ... The Great Gatsby exemplifies how materialistic living from day to day is idealistic in pursuit of happiness. ... Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, strives to achieve an accurate hypothesis of life during the nineteen twenties. ... The embodiment of the American dream is a major theme throughout the novel. Jay Gatsby goes to great lengths to recapture the past by regaining daisy's love. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Destructive power is one of the main themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, one ideology critiqued is the American Dream. ... The settings are symbolic of the great divide between rich and poor. ... The author presents the theme of the Dream as being corrupt. ... The green light at the end of Daisy's dock is shown as a beacon of hope to Gatsby. ... However, the colour green represents wealth - and this shows how Daisy is not only someone Gatsby loves, but someone who is a symbol of wealth to Gatsby. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Destructive power is one of the main themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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Is the Great Gatsby relevant to today's society? While the Great Gatsby takes place in the roaring twenties there are still messages present that are strikingly similar to our own day and age. ... Another character in the Great Gatsby that makes it relevant to modern day is Jordan Baker. ... This finally brings us to the failure of the "American Dream" in the Great Gatsby. ... Whether or not Fitzgerald meant for the Great Gatsby to be a lasting impression of America, it truly has been....

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This response paper will concentrate on the theme of wealth in the novel The Great Gatsby by author F. ... His novel The Great Gatsby is one of the most popular works in American literature, even though it was a critical and commercial failure at first. ... It explores the themes of social decay, materialism, and idealism, and portrays the Roaring Twenties. ... Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties and befriends him, only to find out that Gatsby wants Nick to re-introduce him to his cousin Daisy Buchanan from East Egg, a girl Gatsby's been in love with for years. .....

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In the history of the United States of America the 1920s will always be marked as a time of great wealth, prosperity and corruption. This is easily shown to us in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. ... The two main themes in this highly symbolic novel reflect on the disintegration of the traditional "American Dream" through the shallowness and corruption of the upper class. ... Also the destruction of this American Dream is shown through Gatsby's wild and decadent parties. ... The 1920s were a time of great American corruption, greed, materialism and immoral values of the upper and middle ...

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The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. ... The Great Gatsby is a description of the decay of the American Dream and the desire for money and materialism. ... Another symbol of great importance is Gatsby's house. ... Following a central theme of modernism, this new God watches over his paradise that has been reduced to ash-heaps by modern man. ... The Great Gatsby is a great portrayal of the corruption of society and the fall of the American Dream. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Destructive power is one of the main themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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The Great Gatsby by F. ... He interwned this message in his text by utilizing theme. ... This was Jay Gatsby's life, the good life, except he was lacking in one thing that would make his life complete, the heart of Daisy Buchanan. ...

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Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald embodies may themes, however the most salient one relates to the corruption of the American Dream. ... The Great Gatsby is about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. ... It shows how Gatsby was striving for the his goal and trying to accomplish it. ... Gatsby became corrupted because his main goal was to have Daisy. ... Gatsby needed to have an enormous mansion so he could feel...

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The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald embodies may themes, however the most salient one relates to the corruption of the American Dream. ... The Great Gatsby is about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. ... It shows how Gatsby was striving for the his goal and trying to accomplish it. ... Gatsby became corrupted because his main goal was to have Daisy. ... Gatsby needed to have an enormous mansion so he could feel confident enough to try to win Daisy. " That huge place over there? ...

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