A Response to: F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Art

Title: A Response to: F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Art
Category: Literature / English
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A Response to: F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Art

Settlement in North America has been filled with arrogance and a certain self-satisfaction since it’s beginning. Religious dissenters, original colonist, believed they were creating a ‘new Jerusalem’ in the woods. The United States Constitution claims to be based on ‘self evident’ truths. Americans believed that it was their ‘Manifest Destiny’ to take up the entire continent. American’s religious fervor matched with its greediness to expand explains American arrogance and worship of material wealth. …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1020 total…fact, Tom Buchanan’s character reveals that the fabulously wealthy are as immoral and self-centered as anyone. At the same time Gatsby demonstrates the silliness of measuring a man by his possessions. His entire lifestyle is a lie that he has constructed because he believes that it is the way to his happiness. His efforts demonstrate how easy it is, when material possessions determine social status, to create a false image of the “American Dream”

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