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The manifestations of the American Dream in Fitzgeralds `The Great Gatsby`

The Great Gatsby and the American Dream

Gatsby believed in the green light , the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us . It eluded us then , but that 's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster , stretch out our arms farther And one fine morning - So we beat on , boats against the current , borne back ceaselessly into the past

F Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

The American Dream , stretched between the golden past and a golden future , is always betrayed by a desolate present -- a moment of fruit rinds and

discarded favors and crushed flowers . Imprisoned in his present , Gatsby belongs even more to the past than to the future

Sandra Kochan , The Great Gatsby and the American Dream (p .17

All of us have dreams , but not all of us have the capacity to turn our dreams into reality . Alexander the Great had a dream to conqueror the world - one which he could fulfill , and therefore he has come to be known as `the Great . Jay Gatsby , on the other hand , did not have a great and ambitious dream , he was by no means a world conqueror though perhaps he could have been one . His aspirations were much more modest Like a typical enterprising young man of a progressive society , Gatsby simply wanted to become rich and live the good life . He succeeds in achieving his dream at a very young age , rather like Alexander . And again like the great world conqueror , Gatsby too dies young . Since Gatsby...

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