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American Dream and Gatsby
Title: American Dream and Gatsby
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 2424 | Pages: 10.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
American Dream and Gatsby
The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
Everyone wants to be successful in life, but most often people take the wrong ways to get there. In the 1920’s the American Dream was something that everyone struggled to have. A spouse, children, money, a big house and a car meant that someone had succeeded in life. A very important aspect was money and success was determined greatly by it. This was not true in all cases …showed first 75 words of 2424 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2424 total…which all have the equal opportunity to get what they want. Nonetheless, the fiasco in his personal dream also typifies the collapse of the American Dream on the whole in which social discrimination and class divisions, spiritual voidness and hollow gaiety, and the decadence of values and ideals prevail. The novel is a great reminder that money cannot make the world go around, after all.
Bibliography
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin Books, London, 1950.
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