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A 3 page paper which examines the metaphorical landscape presented in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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in American history and in so doing offers up metaphorical landscape in his presentation of changing times, rebirth, and other social and personal conditions. Both of the stories take place
in the 20s when the nation was thriving in some respects, headed in completely new directions following WWI. On the other hand it was a time of incredible selfishness that
focused a great deal on wealth and materialism, leaving the ideal of hard work and success behind. The following paper examines some of the elements of metaphorical landscape seen in
the two novels. The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise: Landscape In discussing the Great Gatsby it is imperative to understand that Gatsby is one of those
figures that was very much indicative of the times as it relates to success and perhaps a lack of honor and integrity in having obtained that success. There is always
an underlying element of suspicion in relationship to how he got his money, and thus became part of the new wealth for his family was not wealthy and he stated
that he lost all his money after WWI. Money is an important issue in the story as the novel "chronicles the excesses of the sumptuous lifestyle of the wealthy in
America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landscape. And, in relationship to the story,
one critic notes how it is a story that presents "a belief in the colossal power of desire, the possibility of economic and imaginative self-making" (Forter 134). It is
perhaps in the end of the story that one gains many of the elements mentioned in the story as more of a cohesive whole. For example, the narrator states, "And
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