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Great Gatsby
The great gatsby and the fall of the american dream.
The book 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald was an 'icon of its
time.' The book discusses topics that were important, controversial and
interesting back in 1920's America. The novel is 'an exploration of the
American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period of history.' The main
themes in the book are the decay of morals and values and the
frustration of a 'modern' society. The Great Gatsby describes the decay
of the American Dream and the want for money and materialism. This
novel also describes the gap between the rich and the poor (Gatsby and
the Wilsons, West Egg and the Valley of the Ashes) by comparing the
differences between the Western United States (traditional western
culture) and the Eastern United States (money obsessed values). On a
smaller scale this could be seen as the difference between the West Egg
(the 'new, money) and the East egg (the 'old' money). The 1920's were
a time of corruption and the degradation of moral values for the United
States and many other countries. World War One had just ended and
people were reveling in the materialism that came with the end of it,
new mass produced commodities such as motor cars and radios were
filling people's driveways and houses, money was more accessible
(before the Great Depression). Cars were becoming a social symbol in
the 1920s as we can see with Gatsby's five cars, one of which he gives
to Nick and one of which kills Myrtle Wilson later on in the novel.
Herbert Hoover (an American President) said in 1925 "We will root out
poverty and put two cars in every garage." The parties that Gatsby held
every week in the summer were a symbol of the carelessness of the time.
Gatsby would hide in the house while the 'guests',...
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