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The American Dream is defined as an American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire. Anthony Brandt stated that “In the deepening gloom of the Depression, the American Dream represented a reaffirmation of traditional American hopes.” The ....

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.... of America, has changed the new world (the east) from a “fresh, green breast” to a grotesque waste land where only the morally irresponsible can hope to survive. Gatsby' s destruction shows that those who try to maintain an idealism based on purely materialistic values are doomed by their self delusion, and George Wilson's unfortunate career illustrates the fate of the common man in the waste land. There are a few minor characters in The Great Gatsby whose main significance is symbolic. In particular Dan Cody who is a “pioneer debauchee” who employed the youthful Gatsby and gave him his “singularly appropriate education”. While C ....