The American dream
The American Dream is what drives the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The American Dream is the firmly held belief that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their goals and become rich and prosperous if they only work hard enough. What is it about the American Dream that never seems to satisfy? The ideal American Dream is not so realistic. The characters of The Great Gatsby cannot grasp the concept that The American Dream is an illusion because not everyone can get what they want if they work hard.
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The American dream and Great GatsbyGatsby's representation of the broken American Dream gives irony to the novel because he is the only one that actually works for his station.
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The Great Gatsby and the American dream - Guardian UKClass inequality and 'the gospel of wealth' – in tackling such issues F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece has never been more relevant. The 'American dream' has always been an idea of failure
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The Demise of the 1920s American Dream in The Great GatsbyOutwardly, The Great Gatsby may appear to merely be a novel about the failed relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. However, the major theme of the novel has much less to do with love then with the culture of the 1920s as a whole.
1920s - A decade of change
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The 1920s: A Decade of Change
Have you ever heard the phrase “the roaring twenties?” Also known as the Jazz Age, the decade of the 1920s featured economic prosperity and carefree living for many. The decade began with a roar and ended with a crash.
By Barrett A. Silverstein
source: Tar Heel Junior Historian 43:2 (spring 2004)
America goes dry!
The flapper look of the Twenties
No decade in recent history has seen as much change in the status and style of women as the 1920s, sometimes called the Roaring Twenties or the Era of Wonderful Nonsense. Trendy young women of the 1920s were nicknamed flappers, and the flapper became the image that represented the tremendous change in women's lives and attitudes during that period.
To live in the 1920s
Prohibition
During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America
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Prohibition and crime - GCSE BitesizeIn 1920, the 18th Amendment was passed making the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal. But many people in this time of 'Prohibition' continued to drink and gangsters made enormous amounts of money from supplying illegal liquor
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Prohibition in the 1920sThe prohibition in the 1920s went on for 13 long years. It was a decade wherein manufacturing, sale and transportation of liquor was declared illegal in United States.
Roaring twenties
(Manhattan island map in the 1920s)
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Women's rights, fashion, prohibition - TwentiesFemales advanced in the work force as more women began to get hired for office jobs. They also gained several rights and a freer lifestyle.
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The Night Spot That RoaredIF I could return to just one moment in New York’s story, I would go back to the Roaring Twenties, with their radiant gatherings in Harlem and the rise of the Chrysler Building.
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New York connectedNew York in the 1920s had nearly 6 million residents and was a center of manufacturing, commerce, and culture.