The American Dream is interpreted as someone starting at the bottom on the social or economical level and working hard towards success‚ luxury‚ and comfort. This dream shows that anyone‚ no matter who you are‚ can become successful and live a happy life. The American Dream is symbolized by having wealth‚ luxurious belongings‚ and healthy/happy family. The dream is represented by the ideas of someone who is self-sufficient and works hard to achieve the goal they placed in front of themselves to become
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Decline of the American Dream Americans are good dreamers who are willing to work hard to turn their dreams into reality‚ and some of them do succeed. By the 1920’s‚ a multitude of people have made large amounts of money‚ but due to the material excessiveness of the rich‚ some gradually corrupted the purity of their American Dreams. In The Great Gatsby‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald criticizes the theme of the decline of the American Dream in the 1920s by showing the opulence and sloth of both rich and poor
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1 20 April 2013 Gatsby’s American Dream In the novel The Great Gatsby written by E. Scott Fitzgerald “ The American Dream” presents itself by showing the desperation of Jay Gatsby trying to reach his true American Dream. As we all know the American dream is unobtainable realistically speaking‚ but what will one person do to achieve this goal? Jay Gatsby is a rich‚ handsome‚ bachelor who seems to have it all. He’s living the life that most people now could only dream of. The luxury cars‚ ritzy
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The American Dream is dead The main theme of “the great Gatsby” is that the great dream of American is dead. The American dream is defined by people as “The belief that everyone in the United States has the chance to be successful‚ rich‚ and happy if they work hard enough”. Three features of the American Dream are shown as that people can make their dream come true‚ everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their goals and life should become better and richer by their own effort. However‚ readers
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pursuing the American dream of a stable life with a family. The main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ Jay Gatsby‚ is also fascinated to enter into the rat race of achieving the perfect “American Dream”. He wants daisy back and for that he tries to lure her with his wealth. But just like the Stock Market Crash of 1929‚ Gatsby’s American Dream crashes. By depicting the failure of Gatsby’s dream‚ Fitzgerald proves that the American dream is an illusion. This dream of finding fortune
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Professor T. English 101 10 November 2012 The Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald illustrates how the desire for wealth and materialism compels the corruption and decay of the American Dream. Each individual has a different interpretation of what the American Dream entails; however‚ it is usually based on ideas of self-sufficiency‚ freedom‚ and a desire for something greater. The old dreams of earning money and starting a family gradually turned into
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America dreamed of attaining financial greatness. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in New York City‚ the epitome of industrialization and economic opportunity during the Jazz Age. The young‚ charming‚ and charismatic Jay Gatsby flaunts his financial prosperity through lavish and colorful parties. However‚ Gatsby’s money is earned dishonestly and is short lived. Fitzgerald reveals the intangibility of the American Dream through various characters in the novel. George Wilson embodies the underprivileged
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The Great Gatsby The American Dream for men in the 1920’s was to get rich and make a lot of money how ever they can no matter what. For women an American Dream was to do men’s work and have equal rights between men and women’s working and living conditions. Only for some people in different social classes were their dreams attained. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby so he can show society that an American Dream is what people make of it and their not always achievable. James Gatz’s
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The American Dream is everybody’s greatest aspiration. The American Dream is the belief that each individual can‚ through hard work and strength of mind‚ achieve everything they desire. However‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ in his novel The Great Gatsby‚ chose to portray the American Dream not as the wonderful thing most people believe it is‚ but as corrupt and not real. All of Fitzgerald’s characters in his novel strove throughout the book to achieve their version of what they believed the American Dream
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theme in The Great Gatsby is the corruption and decline of the ‘American Dream’. By analyzing the upper class during the 1920s through the eyes of the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ Fitzgerald shows that the American Dream has transformed from noble thoughts to more materialistic and money based ideas. Fitzgerald also highlights the original aspects as well as the new aspects of the American Dream in his tragic novel to illustrate that a once impervious dream is now lost forever to the American people.
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