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The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many repeated references to time to draw attention to the so called "American Dream", which is something Jay Gatsby sorely desires in this novel. Time is the most important motif in The Great Gatsby by far. There are over 450 time words, and the wo ....
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.... at the same time Gatsby himself is a liar, adulterer, a criminal, and someone the narrator, Nick Carraway, has only scorn for. So, as time rolls on in The Great Gatsby , Gatsby and his aspirations for realizing the so-called "American Dream" seem to drift further and further apart as the forces of time seem to do in Jay Gatsby. He is unable to obtain the American Dream because he does not understand how money works in society, and he expects he can buy anything, particularly Daisy, but he just doesn't seem to have the right currency.
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