The Great Gatsby
Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, is based on the dreams of a man named Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel, it is suggested to the reader that Gatsby is a symbol for America. He represents the possibilities of life on a level at which the material and the spiritual have been confused (Bewley 11). Gatsby's dreams, lifestyle and sense of morality represent an American vision of life at which the reality ends and an illusion begins.
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…either become snobs or become outcasts to the world. Who could actually live in such a horrible place? America is the place where dreams, lifestyles, and morals are only present in a few. Heartless people crush dreams, lifestyles are destroyed by green-eyed monsters, and morals exist in only in those who don't have ambitions. It's what Charles Darwin would call survival of the fittest, or only the strong survive. America, it's a jungle out there.
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