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A 4 page paper which examines how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby essentially sums up the American individual and the assumptions made by Americans. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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novel that sums up a changing society as it turned to materialistic dreams. It is a novel that speaks of the American Dream as it shifted from hard work and
honorability to easy money and drink. In so many ways Fitzgeralds Gatsby summed up the American people, and especially the assumption that society was at least released from its history
of hard work, among other things. The following paper examines how Fitzgeralds Gatsby sums us up as Americans. The Great Gatsby: Summing Us Up
According to the student requesting this paper (source unknown to this writer) "Gatsby sums us all up. He sums up our American desire to believe in a
release from history, to believe that our early past did indeed establish redemption, to believe that in our founding the idea of our superb and hopeful heritage was actualized." In
this particular time in history, the 1920s, much had truly been realized by Americans. There was electricity, the nation was between World Wars, women were gaining more freedoms and money
seemed to abound for many. It was a time when the modern world seemed to have arrived and for Gatsby it was due to diligent hard work, but also possibly
less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptable society, was that of wealth no matter
how that wealth was obtained. The novel is one that also speaks of the old ideals concerning the American Dream. Through the
character of the narrator one sees the ideals set forth by Benjamin Franklin, often referred to in history as one of the images of the American Dream. This dream was
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