The Great Gatsby: America's Era Of Disdain

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a seventeen-year-old self-conception, he masked his counterfeit wealth from bootlegging with an image he wore with the help of Dan Cody. He was the man that gave Gatsby the opportunity. After Cody’s death Gatsby “was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man”, and in this he based his rising. So begin his incessant parties of frantic careless “gaiety”.
Of course this was all a carnival to attract the “vast vulgar and meretricious beauty” which was the solemn reason of Gatsby's turmoilent rising. The green light represented the ideal criterion of society. Daisy was Gatsbys dream. James defined all felicity in Daisy, blinding himself from time and circumstance.
With Daisy's eminent refusal his dream became meaningless, deteriorated of reason. When embraced with the reality of her permanent loss his self-effort crumbled upon the empire he made himself. The joyrides finale. His ...

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