Themes in The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

The novel The Great Gatsby ' by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald revolves around many themes . It obviously contains issues about love , but only less romantic . We can see that money is greatly involved in the prominent and dominant theme since the power of money was clearly manifested in the story . Some of the most common subject matter is that of the decline of the idealistic American dream ' caused by the attitudes and actions of several characters in the story . But what is

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