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Scott Fitzgerald's Use Of The Clock In The Great Gatsby

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People say that history has repeated itself or will repeat itself. The Great Gatsby is an all American classic that brings forth excitement with wild parties and shows how much “fun” a wealthy man can have if he lives up to his own expectations of himself. Gatsby achieved his expectations by lying, cheating the system, but never failing to keep moving forward. Then he throws his whole life; his money, time, focus, at this one corrupted girl he “had” a past with. In Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, he uses clocks to demonstrate how Americans dwell on the broken American dream. Scott Fitzgerald uses the clock to illustrate how the American dream has always been broken and can’t be changed. The clock is first introduced when Gatsby
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