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A 7 page paper which examines Mark
Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” as it
involves the American Dream. No additional sources cited.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAtwnfit.rtf
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both stories which present the reader with visions of the American Dream. In Twains story we have, among others, one plot that involves Tom who is actually Chambers. From his
early beginning he was less than kind or worthy, though he felt he was owed the American Dream. His inherent nature and life itself destroyed his dreams or assumptions. With
Jay in Fitzgeralds story we have a man who thinks that money is the way to the American Dream, a dream of acceptance and happiness. He finds that he cannot
achieve such a dream for life will not allow him to truly rise, in character, above that which engulfed him as a child. In the following paper we discuss the
two stories separately, examining how the American Dream could not be fulfilled due to the harsh realities of life. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgeralds "The Great Gatsby"
is, in all honesty, a story about the American Dream, both before and after the 1920s. Prior to the 1920s a man sought out the American Dream for the sole
purpose of being honorable and somewhat successful through being honorable. It was a dream that consisted of doing ones best and remaining a man of integrity. In "The Great Gatsby"
we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capitalistic society that would surely become more powerfully
a nation of consumers. In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gatsby, or Jay. Jay is a man who was essentially nothing as a
youngster. He had nothing and was perhaps determined to make money and become powerful. He wanted the American Dream, not for his own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment
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