In his piece, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald champions the thought that the “American dream” is dead. Society, for the most part, has throw out the once sought-after life of white picket fences, children, and family, and replaced it with a new dream based solely on the secular world. Skillfully, F. Scott Fitzgerald showed the loving, nurturing family and the morality that once characterized many Americans, being shoved aside to make room for a new era full of adultery, sex, and vanity.
To begin, quite a few characters in The Great Gatsby become involved in extra-marital affairs and adulterous situations that further illustrate the deadening of the ideal family in the American dream. For example, Tom Buchanan has a well-kn
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