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What Is The Distortion In The Great Gatsby

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The American Dream for non-whited in American during the early 1900’s was non existant. Fritzagerald shows through his characters the distortion entitlement and greed of their American Dream. This is shown when Gatsby says “I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all many ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition.” Gatsby was not born wealth but was able to gain the money.

Gatsby had a great amount of wealth but was still unhappy, what he desired was love. He sacrifices a lot to win Daisy but nothing worked. Instead his life ends being killed. Daisy had her dream of having a lot of money. She wanted happiness but gets none of that living with Tom. She says, “Tell ‘em all Daisy’s change her
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