American Dream and Racism in Literature
Words: 1045 Pages: 3 2650It is apparent that the primary theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby suggests the decline of the American Dream in the 1920’s. Although that is the distinguished idea throughout the novel, there are other considerable motifs such as the disguised themes of racial and ethnic differences that are debated in Benjamin Schreier’s “‘Race’ and The Great Gatsby’s Cynical Americanism.” This connects with the conception of nativism and belief of becoming a self-made man that is presented in Jeffery […]
