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Gatsby 17 - Essay

Gatsby 17

The “American Dream” in The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald sees the "American Dream" as something corrupt, and not easy to achieve. The "American Dream" is made up of a long social ladder, and it is often impossible to be accepted at the top of this social ladder. In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a good example of the "American Dream.” However, there is a fine line between what many think is the "American Dream,” and what Fitzgerald thinks is the "American Dream.” There is a difference between Gatsby's "American Dream,” and the ideal "American Dream" of others.
The "American Dream" can be perceived in a number of different ways. ...

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Nick drops the first hints that lead us to infer Fitzgerald's view of the "American Dream.”
Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"- it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the ...

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Added: 12/18/2008 08:50:16 AM
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