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- The most common responses to these questions have recourse to conventional metaphors: the Gothic, it is frequently reasoned, embodies and gives voice to the dark nightmare that is the underside of “the American dream.”
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Why is the American Dream so important to The Great Gatsby? We analyze the role this key theme plays in the novel, using quotes, plot, and characters.
- He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
- But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.
- He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
- “I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years.
It is a metaphor of the American dream itself and acts symbolically as a bulwark against the “rapacity that fuelled the nation’s expansion, destroying the gifts of nature in the process.”
This metaphor depicts Gatsby’s enduring pursuit of the American Dream, a mirage that keeps tempting yet eluding us. “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.”
Sep 13, 2013 · This essay seeks to explore questions of space, place and time in the American Gothic. It does so by confronting “America” as a site of hybridity, where surfaces and depths intermingle.
Nov 3, 2023 · What is the ultimate message of “The Great Gatsby” regarding the American Dream? The novel’s message is that an obsessive pursuit of the American Dream, particularly when driven by materialism and the idealization of the past, can lead to disillusionment, moral decay, and personal tragedy.
