Balades 1 Diego Balades Ms. Boloyan and Ms. Thorne Humanities 11 29 October 2014 The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis After the events that took place in World War I, America seemed to promise a variety of opportunities for anyone willing to work hard, the...
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Balades 1 Diego Balades Ms. Boloyan and Ms. Thorne Humanities 11 29 October 2014 The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis After the events that took place in World War I, America seemed to promise a variety of opportunities for anyone willing to work hard, the American Dream. However, achieving and realizing that dream has corrupted some of them. Through the lives of three characters in the book, Jay Gatsby, George Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan, the author tries to prove one point and one point only, that chasing dreams doesn't get you what you want. One character who chases a dream of his own is George Wilson. George chases his dream through living as an honest, hard-working man. Unlike Gatsby, who is a criminal that cheating his way through life to become rich, or Myrtle who constantly dreams of cheating on her husband with a man named Tom. As described at thegreatgatsbydream.blogspot.com, “George Wilson’s dream is incorrupt; he wishes for a better life for both he and his wife, to escape the
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