The Great Gatsby: Depravation Of The American Dream
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The American Dream is defined as an American ideal of a happy and
successful life to which all may aspire. Anthony Brandt stated that “In the
deepening gloom of the Depression, the American Dream represented a
reaffirmation of traditional American hopes.” The Great Gatsby, a sensitive,
satiric ....
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.... as the
fulfillment of the historical promise of America, has changed the new world
(the east) from a “fresh, green breast” to a grotesque waste land where
only the morally irresponsible can hope to survive. Gatsby' s destruction
shows that those who try to maintain an idealism based on purely
materialistic values are doomed by their self delusion, and George Wilson's
unfortunate career illustrates the fate of the common man in the waste land.
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