The Dream is Dead

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What does the American Dream mean to you ? To F. Scott Fitzgerald the author of The Great

Gatsby , the American dream has been corrupted. The dream has been transformed from security and

happiness into a state of materialistic power and immorality. Fitzgerald's tragic story of a young dreamer, is

modeled after the way the American dream is now lost forever to the American people.

As David Trask asserts in his essay "the American dream consists of the belief sometimes thought

as a promise that people of talent in this land of opportunity and plenty could reasonably aspire to material

success if they adhered to a fairly well defined set of behavioral rules" (Trask es



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Approximate Word count = 469
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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