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A 3 page paper which examines the idea of the American Dream as seen in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." No additional sources cited.
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when people were searching for some meaning in their society. They are essentially stories that take place during the same time period, or almost the same time period, that being
the 1920s. With Hemingways story we have the Lost Generation and with Fitzgeralds story we have the wealthy and the frivolous youth who think possessions are the only thing to
pursue. Both stories speak of a different kind of American Dream and both illustrate, in one way or another, how that American Dream is a false one. The following paper
examines these two novels in these regards. The American Dream In Hemingways story, as mentioned, we are presented with the Lost Generation. The Lost Generation is essentially a
group of people who suffered during WWI and were lost in terms of their future and their hopes. They were a generation that were forgotten and ignored by society, and
a group of people that many associate with Hemingway and his works. These people in his novel are very pessimistic and they see no future for themselves. As such they
primarily engage in activities wherein they avoid their own realities to a large degree. They are individuals who do a lot of drinking, and never really seem to get anything
done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic realities of warfare. They no longer
have an American Dream. They may have before the war, but in this story, which takes place after the war, they have no real solid belief in any such dream.
The people in Fitzgeralds story are also primarily people who drink their lives away. But they are also individuals who seek success and wealth. Their vision of the American Dream
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