Part one of term paper
The American Dream. Our individual vision of it defines each and every one of us. In comparing the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The movie “A Place in the sun”, (based on the book “An American Tragedy”, by Theodore Dreiser) it was easy to see many similarities in both to compare and contrast. This essay, h ...

Part two of term paper
... to a dream-palace of imaginary bliss. For Gatsby material wealth was what a holy "vision" was to a religious mystic. For Gatsby material "success" was itself an ultimate goal, and this was the basic paradox at the heart of Gatsby's "romance” with Daisy. Jay Gatsby, who would make of materialism a spiritual ideal, was ultimately destroyed by his own dreams. Secondly, in Chapter 5, When Gatsby meets Daisy again for the first time in five years, Nick tries to comfort him in the kitchen, and finally ...