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American Dream
Title: American Dream
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 840 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
American Dream
During the Jazz Age, the 1920’s, the American Dream was formed by the upper class society. It was a dream of money, wealth, prosperity, the need to get rich quick, and the happiness that should come as a result of a booming economy. The American Dream was based purely upon materialistic things. The novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, illustrates the infatuation one man had toward his “American Dream”, his aspiration to fulfill …showed first 75 words of 840 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 840 total…American Dream for money, wealth, prosperity, and happiness. Just as The Great Gatsby was full of dreamers, so was America. Dreaming of wealth and prosperity are fine as long as they do not consume your life and prevent one’s chance for true happiness. “What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more” (Seneca). Blinded by money and love, the American Dream became the American Tragedy.
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