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Materialism And The Great Gatsby
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The acquisition of material has often been equated with happiness in this country. This is true today, and it was true during the 1920's, the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Fiztgerald shows how Jay Gatsby is a man that believes if he has money, he can attain love and happines ....
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....0's were also an era of blatant materialism and consumption and the pursuit for private wealth took priority over what was good for society in general. The Depression that followed the 1920’s was an agonizing economic time for the American people but it had the positive effect of forcing people to reexamine their focus on material possessions and personal wealth to what was good for the country as a whole. Jay Gatsby’s idea of the American Dream and his error of thinking that money can buy hi.... |
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