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F Scott Fitzgerald Myrtle Wilson
829 wordsDust in The Great Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates many different themes, but the most prevalent message is that of the impossibility of the American Dream. Fitzgerald writes of two types of people: those who appear to have the ideal life and those who are still trying to achieve their dreams. Tom and Daisy are two characters who seem to have it all: a nice house, a loving spouse, a beautiful child, and plenty of money (Fitzgerald 6; ch. 1). However, neither...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Clean Well Lighted Place
1,301 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald s attempt to portray the striving American dream in the Great Gatsby can be categorized close to that of A Clean Well-Lighted Place or The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway centers on the theme of self-conflict and evil s attempts to triumph over good and, in contrast to Fitzgerald, these themes originate within the idea of personal refinement. Born into a fairly well to do family in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896 Fitzgerald attended, but never graduated from Pr...
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