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Coleman, Dan.” A world Complete in itself”: Gatsby’s Elegiac Narration. “F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Ed. Harold Bloom, 99-122. Philadelphia” Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Illusion. Print. As the title shows, his purpose of writing this article based off of Fitzgerald’s work “ The Great Gatsby”, was to explain the many values and different characters that were in Fitzgerald’s life and transfers into the many characters of “The Great Gatsby.” Coleman states that Gatsby believes that his thoughts are reality but it alludes that they are just feelings and these feelings becomes Gatsby reality. “ Cause everyday reality to disintegrate into an amorphous other-world” showing that if all of the characters take Gatsby literally then it would cause the novels fantastic reality a fantasy and would allow Gatsby to allude that his ways were the ways of society instead of actual reality. Gatsby has dreams and many thoughts about his love life, wealth and actions. His thoughts allude to all the wrong he is doing in reality. “nicks mix of metaphors start to disturb his readers sense of the basic continuity between the reality represented” and this connects to the same as gatsbys actions. This article should not have the title of illusions and should be a representation of how Fitzgerald uses many metaphors throughout his writing.
Hornung, Alfred “The Un-American Dream.” Vol. 44. No.4 (1999): 545-553. JSTOR. Web. 17 may. 2013. As the title implies, The objective is to show how Fitzgerald’s work was Un-American and went against the Americans dream. But Hornung recognizes a great and unique talent. Many Americans believe that the American way should always be followed and that the belief in idealistic principles based on the value system connected with the foundation of the United States is the correct way to go about anything. But Fitzgerald’s work was Un-American, because he went against many of the Americans beliefs. Even though many say that Gatsby was so

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