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    This document discusses The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and how it relates to the American Dream. It explores how the novel depicts both moral and immoral pursuits of wealth and success through characters like Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. While the book was written in the 1920s, it remains relevant today in its examination of themes like the fleeting nature of wealth, close-mindedness, and selfishness that still impact modern society. The American Dream is shown to be an ideal that is both inspiring yet difficult to attain in reality.

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    This document discusses The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and how it relates to the American Dream. It explores how the novel depicts both moral and immoral pursuits of wealth and success through characters like Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. While the book was written in the 1920s, it remains relevant today in its examination of themes like the fleeting nature of wealth, close-mindedness, and selfishness that still impact modern society. The American Dream is shown to be an ideal that is both inspiring yet difficult to attain in reality.

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    This document discusses The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and how it relates to the American Dream. It explores how the novel depicts both moral and immoral pursuits of wealth and success through characters like Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. While the book was written in the 1920s, it remains relevant today in its examination of themes like the fleeting nature of wealth, close-mindedness, and selfishness that still impact modern society. The American Dream is shown to be an ideal that is both inspiring yet difficult to attain in reality.

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    In this essay I'll be discussing a few points on The Great Gatsby; On how it
    relates to the American dream, the book's relevance today, how it connects
    to todays lifestyles and if it's a classic.

    The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is a 1925 novel written


    by American author Scott Fitzegerald. It's about the impossibility of recapturing
    the past,
    which initially became a failure.
    A novel which perfectly descirbes how seekers of their own American Dream can
    follow two paths, the morally honest
    way, or the immoral dishonest way. The Great Gatsby shows how
    the difference between being moral and immoral is very noticeable, as it is shown
    through many of its major characters, especially Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway, in
    their
    pursuit for the desirable American Dream. The set of ideals in which freedom
    includes the opportunity for prosperity and success all
    achieved through hard work anin a society with few barriers.

    According to Sarah Churchwell she defined The Great Gatsby as the superiority of
    imagination over reality which makes
    it very difficult to dramatise well. Regulary named one of the greatest American
    novels ever written.

    although the novel ends with Nick�s sad meditation on the lost promise of the
    American Dream.
    .

    The American Dream is in all aspects the definition of growth


    where one gains power over a period of time. A rise from
    a little point to where one gains power, falls in love and becomes rich
    over a period of time. Even though the American dream has several different
    interpretations but it always has to do with self-reliance, and the
    longing for a greater purpose.

    In Chapter, Gatsby tells Nick the truth about how his less-than-wealthy past,
    which not only makes him look like the star of a rags-to-riches story,
    it makes Gatsby himself seem like someone in pursuit of the American Dream,
    which he personifies that dream as Daisy.

    In Chapter 6, we learn about Gatsby�s less-than-wealthy past,


    which not only makes him look like the star of a rags-to-riches story,
    it makes Gatsby himself seem like someone in pursuit of the American Dream,
    and for him the personification of that dream is Daisy.

    The novel has all timeless elements of the American Dream�economic possibility,
    racial and religious diversity.
    From the moment I read about Gatsby's lifestyle and his luxurious lifestyle, it
    felt like �anything can happen,� even a happy ending.
    However, the novel ends with Nick�s sad meditation on the lost promise of the
    American Dream.

    Furthermore, The Great Gatsby is quite relevant to today. According to MC from


    SincerelyMC he mentions that
    The roars of the roaring twenties have faded and we don�t find ourselves surrounded
    by flapper girls and prohibition laws, but the questions about
    humanity and the themes of wealth, close-mindedness, popularity, obsession with the
    past, and ultimate selfishness still impact 21st-century society.

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