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On “Great Dream” in The Great Gatsby
JING Jing JING Xia
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2015.12.007
Changchun University, Changchun, China No. 20 Junior Middle School of Siping, Siping, China
The Great Gatsby is a representative work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it is a specific depiction of American society during the Roaring Twenties, telling the quintessential American story of a man rising from rags to riches. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows how the American Dream is full of materialism, and how materialism influences the lives of people and makes it hard for people to see the reality objectively. This paper aims at interpreting Gatsby’s “Great Dream” and analyzing the influence of the social and historical backgrounds on Gatsby’s “Great Dream”.
American Dream, “Great Dream”, Gatsby