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criticism of America and the American experience in "The Great Gatsby" Fitzgerald
Title: criticism of America and the American experience in "The Great Gatsby" Fitzgerald
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 510 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
criticism of America and the American experience in "The Great Gatsby" Fitzgerald
The American Dream, as it arose in the Colonial period and developed in the nineteenth century, was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what his origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man, just as it was embodied in Fitzgerald's own family by his grandfather, P. F. McQuillan. Fitzgerald's novel takes its …showed first 75 words of 510 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 510 total…lack or morale, and lack of values is not the place for him.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald gives some severest criticism of the American dream ever written. That dream has been destroyed and polluted by the pursuit of material success. Fitzgerald is successfully able to identify the deficiencies of the American vision itself. Fitzgerald shows that the secret of life happiness is to fulfill the American dream purely and faithfully.
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