Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond salesman " I decided to go east and learn the bond business. ... Just as Nick moved to New York to pursue the bondsmanship, Fitzgerald eventually made it from Minnesota to New York to become a writer (after finishing a stint in the armed services). ... For instance, Tom Buchanan has an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a gas station proprietor down in the valley of the ashes - an industrial and unsightly area of Long Island that one passes through g...

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The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes that white civilization is going to pieces and will be utterly submerged by the other races. ...

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