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The Great Gatsby American Dream Essay

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The American dream in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby has an interesting twist on the American Dream.This book exemplifies the negative things of an American Dream which isn’t commonly portrayed. Because of this different point of view, it gives us a new way to think. The Great Gatsby, is a novel written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, that takes us on a journey through the Narrator, Nick Carraway’s point of view, as he navigates through life in the West Egg and the competition between “old” money and “new” money. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as a representation of American people striving to reach their ultimate goal in America. Fitzgerald uses emotion and action to portray Gatsby’s Dream which is Daisy. Fitzgerald writes, “He stretched out his arms
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