Chasing Dreams

Title: Chasing Dreams
Category: Literature / English | Words: 966 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)

Chasing Dreams

The Great Gatsby outlines lives embedded along the path of the American Dream, which hit a detour when confronting the social stratospheres that define Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchannan. The Great Gatsby is a story of the haves and have-nots or when carefully examined old money, new money and no money. The three characters mentioned above fit perfectly into F. Scott Fitzgerald’s social commentary of American life in the 1920’s. When placed …showed first 75 words of 966 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 966 total…power and money in the world could not buy compassion or morality. Fitzgerald brilliantly uses these characters to tear down the myth that the rich were so much better than the poor. He reveals that character is a trait that isn’t passed onto generation to generation like the wealth of the old money, but it is something so elusive that it can escape the rich and be held by an everyman like Nick Carraway.

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