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The Dream is Dead
Title: The Dream is Dead
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 486 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Dream is Dead
What does the American Dream mean to you ? To F. Scott Fitzgerald the author of The Great
Gatsby , the American dream has been corrupted. The dream has been transformed from security and
happiness into a state of materialistic power and immorality. Fitzgerald’s tragic story of a young dreamer, is
modeled after the way the American dream is now lost forever to the American people.
As David Trask asserts in his essay “the American dream …showed first 75 words of 486 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 486 total…of the modern American dream has of surviving in
the new corrupt, money hungry world dies with him. When George Wilson commits suicide, the hope of
the true hard working man making it in the new corrupt world drift away with his soul.
With the story of Gatsby’s tragic idealistic love, Fitzgerald simultaneously shows the end of
American values. The American dream has been forever forgotten by human greed and the love for money.
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