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The depression was an era of extremes. A person was more than likely extremely poor, or in the lucky upper 1% that was extremely wealthy. The middle class was virtually not existent. All of these income groups, including those characterized in our three stories, wanted money because it supposedly brought happiness, but were actually struggling to cling to the intangible, unreachable feeling of love. If money leads to love, Dexter Green has bought it a thousand times over. He wanted not association with the glittering things and glittering people [but] the glittering things themselves" even if they come in the shape of an object, a person, a house, a manner, or as simple as a life (Fitzgerald Dreams 58). He is still the "proud, desirous little boy" of his youth (Dreams 64). This reincarnation of the Victorian gilded age reinstates the fact those things that look of worth might really be empty of value inside. This glittering hollowed thing for Dexter Green appears as Judy Jones. He wants her; he longs for her because he has everything else. "Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it;" just another trophy on his shelf, and seemingly the gift one might give a person w
Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. 1564-90. The American Tradition in Literature. Fourth edition. Sculley Bradley. New York: Francis and Margot add an interesting twist to our achieved view of the rich. Francis was a metaphorical light in the darkness of money. Unlike the rest of the characters, he had a happy ending to his life for he was truly happy during his last moments. Death did not stop him, because no matter what anyone did or said about him, he had won; he beat his stereotype. Life is the lion to Francis Macomber, the "worst one can do is kill you" and in a way it did (Hemmingway 1587). He was the only one to be physically depraved because of his early death. He, ultimately, was desperate to be a man and desperate to have "no bloody fear" in leaving Margaret (Hemmingway 1587). Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Babylon Revisited". Fiction `00. Third edition Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. New York: The New Press, 1997.
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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