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Great Gatsby and The American Dream - Coggle Diagram
Great Gatsby and The American Dream
A national belief that America has the traits to provide everyone with the opportunity to achieve their dreams.
Relations to Great Gatsby
Wealth
Jay Gatsby
Mansion
Big Parties
Achieved by Illegal Bootlegging Business (Racketeering)
Expensive Cars
A lot of nice clothes (Daisy impressed)
Servants
Tom Buchanan
Mansion
Polo, Football Player
Expensive Cars
Servants
Generational Wealth
Social Mobility
The ability for one to move up the social order in society
East Egg has Old Money (had money for generations)
More cautious than New Money
Still extravagant lifestyle
Lived life in luxury
Valley of Ashes had lower class workers
Can't afford to have extravagant parties
Not much free time
Work all day
West Egg has New Money (Only Got Money Recently)
Extravagant Spendings
Luxurious Parties
Have Lived as Middle Class Before
Not Really Offered
Life in New York As Portrayed in this Book is Inequal
While Social Mobility Exists, it is insufficient to be a true vision of what the American Dream promised.
Opportunity
George has to work as a mechanic to achieve anything
Myrtle has no job, and so needs to be a mistress to get what she wants too
She doesn't actually want to be a mistress (Fitzgerald 28)
She also doesn't want George but had to settle
Conversation with Catherine (Fitzgerald 28)
Getting a dog with Tom, which signifies a family relationship