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The Great Gatsby and the 'American Dream'
In Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby the concept of the 'American Dream' appears in two ways. On the one hand Fitzgerald's view and imagination of the American Dream and on the other and, within the plot, Gatsby as the 'possible' personified American Dream come true. Francis Scott Fitzgerald practically puts the notion of the American Dream on the same level as 'human dream'. But more remarkable is the fact that Fitzgerald's concept of the American Dream corresponds with the history of America. It has to do with the history of the pioneers and their slogan 'conquer the West' with a land of 'new beginnings, hope and unlimited opportunities'. So Fitzgerald actually knows that The Great Gatsby is about the American Dream - even if the term itself hasn't been coined yet and remains the 'fragment of lost words' that Nick Carraway almost remembers as he listens to Gatsby's appallingly sentimental account of Daisy......

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