Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution Of A Dream
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A dream is defined in the Webster's New World Dictionary as: a
fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything
so lovely, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike. In the beginning pages
of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the
narrator of the st ....
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.... five Nick says, "...and I think he
revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it
drew from her well-loved eyes." Everything in Gatsby's house is the zenith
of his dreams, and when Daisy enters Gatsby's house the material things
seem to lose their life. Daisy represents a dreamlike, heavenly presence
which all that he has is devoted to. Yes, we should consider Jay Gatsby
as tragic figure because of belief that he can restore the past and live
happily, but his disto ....
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