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Ellen L

The Demise of the 1920s American Dream in The Great Gatsby - InfoRefuge.com - 0 views

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The Great Gatsby american dream

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  • the perception of the American Dream was that an individual can achieve success in life regardless of family history or social status if they only work hard enough.
  • Gatsby epitomizes the idea of self-made success; he is successful financially and socially and he essentially created an entirely new persona for himself from his underprivileged past. All of the wealth and status which Gatsby acquired, that while on the surface made his life appear to be the precise definition of the American Dream were actually elements which led to it’s demise.
  • “The culture of consumption on exhibit in The Great Gatsby was made possible by the growth of a leisure class in early-twentieth-century America. As the novel demonstrates, this development subverted the foundations of the Protestant ethic, replacing the values of hard work and thrifty abstinence with a show of luxury and idleness.” (Donaldson, 8)
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  • What Donaldson is implying here, is that the sudden wealth that many Americans began to acquire caused leisure and idleness to replace traditional ethics like hard work as qualities that were admired. None of the characters in The Great Gatsby seemed to care much about hard work once they had achieved their material goals.
  • The show of luxury and idleness that Donaldson talks about is best shown in Fitzgerald’s portrayal of Gatsby’s home and parties that for Gatsby were merely devices he used in a naïve attempt to win Daisy. Although he loves her, he undeniably also sees her as a material commodity, much the way he views his home.
  • Ellen L on 24 Oct 11
     
    This site discusses The Great Gatsby as a image of the culture of the 1920s, including the significance of the automobiles and the american dream. Gatsby's objectification of people and need for material gain to reach his goals is connected to the growth of the leisure class during this time period, which is dubbed "a culture of consumption."
Sarah Sch

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  • Sarah Sch on 25 Oct 11
     
    "F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925) is the quintessential tale of the American dream: the heights a man may reach, the past he can discard, the joy he may (or may not) find, and the tragedy that living the dream may bring him. "
  • Sarah Sch on 25 Oct 11
     
    "Fitzgerald writes about the traditional white American dream which is born out of capitalistic ideals, and, thus, reliant on material acquisitions and attaining high social status."
  • Sarah Sch on 25 Oct 11
     
    This article's main focus is on "The Great Gatsby" and the elements it encompasses. The article discusses the literary techniques, basic plot, and authorial purpose. "The Great Gatsby" is a novel about the American Dream and one man's pursuit of his own part of that dream. Gatsby strives to achieve wealth and success yet once he's there he is not happy without Daisy. Daisy is the ultimate object. She is a person that embodies wealth and status.
Evan G

Analysis of Corruption in Nick Carraway of the Great Gatsby. Essays on Literary Works - 0 views

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  • the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal of security into a convoluted scheme of materialistic power.
  • Jay Gatsby, who epitomizes the purest characteristic of the American Dream: everlasting hope.
  • depravity of the modern dream to wealth, privilege, and the void of humanity that those aspects create. Money is clearly identified as the central proponent of the dream's destruction; it becomes easily entangled with hope and success, inevitably replacing their places in the American Dream with materialism.
  • Evan G on 24 Oct 11
     
    Discusses the conversion and corruption of the American dream, which becomes more materialistic and greedy than ever. Even Gatsby, the eternal optimist, an archetypal dreamer, makes his fortunes through underhanded, sneaky ways with his partner Wolfsheim.
Ellen L

The Great Gatsby And The American Dream - Discuss Anything - 0 views

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  • On the surface of The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald portrays a romantic love between a man and a woman, but inside the real meaning is much deeper. Fitzgerald depicts the 1920’s as a time of decay social and moral values, evidence of this is the greed and the pursuit of pleasure. Jay Gatsby’s constant parties epitomized the corruption of the American Dream as the desire for money and worldly pleasures overshadowed the true values of the American Dream.
  • It’s written in the American Constitution that every individual has the right to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. This right it seems has taken a twisted turn in the early 1920’s.
  • . These materialistic values consequently led the decay of the American Dream. The new American Dream described by Fitzgerald portrays a world where greed, the pursuit of money and pleasure are above all else. Fitzgerald portrays a world that has lost its way in the corruption of the American Dream.
  • Ellen L on 24 Oct 11
     
    "The pursuit of happiness soon turned into the pursuit of wealth and ultimately to greed" This relates to the capitalist business model seen in FFN, GOW, TJ and NaD in which all the business owners work to gain a profit, despite the situation they place their employees. Material wealth is seen taking over the ideals of society, a concept that the members of the Eggs exhibit through their ostentatious parties and affluence. 
Sydney C

A Feminist Reading of The Great Gatsby - 1 views

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  • Sydney C on 25 Oct 11
     
    It doesn't let me copy or highlight because this is a PDF, but look towards page 11. This offers a view on the gender roles during the Great Gatsby
Willie C

Gale- Gatsby - 0 views

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the great gatsby ethics america money rich

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  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    "and similarly criticized the rich thugs with no values, tapped into cultural pessimism, and gave readers a glimpse into chaos. The Great Gatsby is the tale of the irresponsible rich"
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    This quote shows that the overview look on The Great Gatsby is about the irresponsible rich, who do not take responsibility for their actions, because they believe their money excludes them from ethics.
Connor P

Gale Power Search - Document - 1 views

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#4 the great gatsby the american dream

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  • The American dream, like Gatsby's house in the end of the novel, is empty, or may never have existed.
  • Connor P on 24 Oct 11
     
    this shows the symbolism in which the American dream is corrupt through which gatsbys house is empty. it shows that the true american dream is not reachable
Sydney C

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  • Sydney C on 25 Oct 11
     
    In any event, Gatsby, unprepared for life in the elite class, repeatedly misread people and events. By contrast, his protagonist Tom was in his element, read people and events accurately, and reacted toward his own survival. Gatsby doesn't have the advantages that those born into the higher classes have. He had to start on his own with no background.
David D

Your Turn: Jay Gatsby : NPR - 0 views

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the great gatsby the american dream america

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  • David D on 25 Oct 11
     
    This source portrays Gatsby as an admirable man who did everything he could in pursuit of his American dream. While Nick Carraway despised "everything Gatsby stood for", he was really a man with a purpose and a desire for a better life.
Ellen L

Economic View: Does money buy happiness? - Business - International Herald Tribune - Th... - 0 views

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The Great Gatsby happiness social gap

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  • hen inequality is high and growing rapidly, luxury purchases are sometimes as hard to ignore as a seven- foot sixth grader.
  • When "The Great Gatsby" was first published in 1925, income and wealth disparities were at record levels. It is thus no mystery that F. Scott Fitzgerald's saga of wealthy Americans during the Jazz Age became an instant best-seller.
  • But since then, it has again been rising sharply. Disparities today are once more at record levels, which may help explain the resurgence of interest in Gatsby.
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  • Researchers have identified other factors that affect happiness levels far more than income does. For example, happiness levels rise substantially with the number of close friends someone has. One of the most striking scenes in the novel is of Gatsby's funeral, which almost no one bothered to attend. In his single-minded pursuit of material success, he appears to have developed no real friendships at all.
  • Ellen L on 24 Oct 11
     
    This article discusses The Great Gatsby's revived popularity as an effect of the increasing economic inequality between the wealthy and the poor as well as reasons contributing to his unhappiness, such as his lack of real friends. 
Willie C

The Great Gatsby - 0 views

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the great gatsby ethics america rich

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source goes over the jungle and discusses the historical facts it presents on the treatment of the workers and the horrors of the meatpacking industry that Sinclair goes into.
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  • Willie C on 12 Oct 11
     
    "Central to Woolf's campaign for female creativity is her insistence that women be educated. Instead of training that forces them to write and think as men do"
  • Brian C on 24 Oct 11
     
    shows the decadence of the rich in the great gatsby
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    "Nick's reflection on Gatsby's comment uses striking imagery to convey the connection between love and money so prevalent in Fitzgerald's writings"
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    This quote shows how money is intertwined in everything for those who are rich. Daisy considers money to be heavily involved with love, and that it shapes love by itself. This shows how the morals of the rich are not align to the good of society.
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    "is destroyed by his devotion to a worthless woman and by his confusion of money with love"
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    This quote shows again how the rich characters in Fitzgerald's novel have clouded vision, and cannot see that money is not the answer to all a persons problems. This is mainly due to the reality that they can get out of any situation with their money.
Evan G

The Great Gatsby Study Guide - 0 views

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  • New York City is a symbol of what America has become in the 1920's : a place where anything goes, where money is made and bootleggers flourish, and where the World Series can be fixed by a man such as Meyer Wolfsheim.
  • The wealthy families in the novel such as Gatsby or the Buchanans, were always trying to impress rather than trying to be themselves.
  • The morals of people with great wealth seem to be less than desirable, but many times are more socially accepted than lower classes.
  • Evan G on 24 Oct 11
     
    Discusses appearance vs reality and  talks about the hypocrisy of the morality of the time period: rich people can have the poorest morals of everyone, yet it is more acceptable than poor people with good morals
Sarah Sch

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  • Sarah Sch on 25 Oct 11
     
    "Fitzgerald draws a contrast between the immorality and shallowness of the East and the innocence and virtue of the West, highlighting the persistence of illusions and dreams in the face of sordid reality."
  • Sarah Sch on 25 Oct 11
     
    This article expresses the symbolism and themes in "The Great Gatsby". The article focuses on Fitzgerald and how his life relates to the novel. The article gives insight into the author and the events of the novel.
Evan G

The Great Gatsby Setting - 0 views

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  • Nobody’s concerned about politics or spiritual matters – but everybody cares about how they are perceived socially. The social climate demands respectability; it asks people to conform to certain standards
  • Evan G on 24 Oct 11
     
    Talks about themes such as setting and appearance vs reality. Clearly, people aren't focused on internal qualities such as politics or religion; the rich care only about how they are perceived and how they appear. The need for social acceptance gives way to the appearance vs reality theme
Zach Ramsfelder

The Portrayal of 1920s Society in "The Great Gatsby" - 1 views

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 24 Oct 11
     
    Through his portrayal of the events in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald condemns the lack of morality and spirituality during the 1920's. He portrays the 1920's as a time where society has substituted materialism and instant gratification in place of structure and spirituality.
Evan G

SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Themes, Motifs & Symbols - 0 views

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  • era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties
  • newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste.
  • Evan G on 24 Oct 11
     
    Discusses the impact of setting on the plot and purpose of the novel, and how the various rich groups have corrupted the American dream from an innocent, ambitious hope for fortune into greed, debauchery, and misbehavior
Zaji Z

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  • The American Dream, once revered as an attainable, an almost holy icon of American culture, now found itself subject to scrutiny. Gatsby exemplifies the man who obtains, at least for awhile, the outward trappings of financial wealth only to see the empire he envisions for himself ultimately fail to materialize.
  • Zaji Z on 25 Oct 11
     
    The American Dream is something many aspire to, but in the reality of things, it is fair to question how far someone can actually get to that dream. One can have wealth and go for it, but in reality, there are so many factors that make one seem like swimming against the current of the super rich and powerful.
Brian C

The Great Gatsby: The Tragedy of the American Dream on Long Island's Gold Coast - 1 views

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great gatsby daisy nick carraway tom buchanan

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  • Brian C on 24 Oct 11
     
    shows the moral decay of the rich in the great gatsby (appearance vs reality)
Ben R

A Brief Life of Fitzgerald - 0 views

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The Great Gatsby

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  • Ben R on 25 Oct 11
     
    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald's given names indicate his parents' pride in his father's ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values.
  • Ben R on 25 Oct 11
     
    An intresting summery of Fitzgeralds life, while reading I could not help but notice all the similarties between his person life and the characters in The Great Gatsby, for example his dropping out of a prestigious school such as princeton and joining the army, where seems very similiar to what Gatsby did or his family living off of inharitance such as he family did, much like Tom and Daisy.
Travis F

TRIMALCHIO: AN EARLY VERSION OF THE GREAT GATSBY - 0 views

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  • Travis F on 24 Oct 11
     
    This introduces another book similar to the great gatsby for possible use in the paper.
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