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The decline of the American Dream - Coggle Diagram
The decline of the American Dream
Decline in the Great Gatsby
The characters of the book are the best symbols that chased the dream until the end of life and failed in its success because they overvalued materialism and money instead of its pure ideals.
THE LOSS OF SOME MAIN CHARACTERS
The deaths of Myrtle, George and Gatsby signified the end of the american dream.
Even though Gatsby meant well for Daisy, he acted on his intense obsession to be with her and broke the law, showing his lack of morals and judgement, thus proving the decline in the American Dream.
Quotes
"We drew in deep breaths . . . as we walked back . . . through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again
"It sounds like all the rich people send their kids off East to prep school. What is it about the East in comparison to the West? Are the two regions really that different?"
"Gatsby's main goal in life, and by extension, America's main goal, which is to always achieve more, rather than be satisfied with what they have."
American Dream is the continuous desire for better, it is impossible to fully grasp."
"For, although this is United States of America, it is also a society marked by class and racial divisions."
definition
The American Dream is the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers
Symbols and Motifs
Judgement
wealth
infidelity
money and oppurtunity
Literary devices
Fitzgerald communicates that Gatsby's American Dream was incoherent, as one cannot recreate the past. His strategic usage of alliteration, metaphors