How would you describe the American Dream using quotes from "The Great Gatsby"?

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How would you describe the American Dream using quotes from "The Great Gatsby"?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: 'There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.'"

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 4

"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 5

"they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 5

"And as I sat there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. But what he did not know was that it was already behind him, somewhere in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 9

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 9

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