Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald embodies may themes, however
the most salient one relates to the corruption of the American Dream. The
American Dream is that each person no matter who he or she is can become
successful in life by his or her own hard work. The dream also embodies
the idea of a self-sufficient man, an entrepreneur making it successful for
himself. The Great Gatsby is about what happened to the American dream in
the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the
avaricious pursuit of wealth....
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