A million men all consumed with visions of blue yards a year; trekking through the grass fields of Europe, the mine covered dunes of the Middle east, and escaping the grasping death-embrace of corrupt leaders in Africa. All delusional men injected with propaganda that there is more waiting past the Atlantic. The war has progressed humanity immensely, rather than a hundred years of peace; with destruction comes reformation in an institutionalized and public level . Methods of globalization was key for America to seed the idea of the American dream into the infertile grounds of the hopeless people across the globe. The corporate moguls that feast on the uprising destruction brings, need plebeians to work- a feudalistic system in which higher
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Tell the people that the world is theirs, but only if they work for it and must start from the bottom; with majority remaining at the bottom with some moving up to fuel more hope into the plebeians. One could break America down into two components: an open market system alongside with supply & demand, an attempt to tap into either requires prior wealth or illegal methods, sheer luck, and monopoly. Gatsby’s greed in fixating himself into achieving everything in his idealistic dream leads to his ultimate demise. Meyer Wolfshiem taps into the effective high demand of low supply alcohol which is prohibited, and through these illegal means of making money, one can not blame the law or the man, but what the society is based upon. When the name carries prestige it is often so easy to cause destruction and go unnoticed, the Buchanan family is a prime example of how one’s privilege can safeguard one from all of society’s harm and pain that comes along with life. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the idea of the American dream is tarnished through greed, corruption, and one’s …show more content…
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.” To the end the reader visualizes Daisy sitting across from her husband Tom eating, and nothing else, not even the slightest of bother she killed a man, nor that the man who loved her so much has died. A sort of luxury that only the prestigious and rich can afford, this immunity from all of the pain that life induces upon one. DAISY QUOTE ON SAYING DAUGHTER IS DUMB Daisy tells Nick that she hopes her daughter grows up dumb, so that she may be shielded from life’s harm; in reality however the daughter will be bubble wrapped from life itself, she will grow up not knowing the struggle of not knowing if there will be power next month, or even food- a luxury that the poor could never afford. The system that was accelerated by the war still has modern day implications, however one thing has remained the same “The rich get richer, the poor
Tell the people that the world is theirs, but only if they work for it and must start from the bottom; with majority remaining at the bottom with some moving up to fuel more hope into the plebeians. One could break America down into two components: an open market system alongside with supply & demand, an attempt to tap into either requires prior wealth or illegal methods, sheer luck, and monopoly. Gatsby’s greed in fixating himself into achieving everything in his idealistic dream leads to his ultimate demise. Meyer Wolfshiem taps into the effective high demand of low supply alcohol which is prohibited, and through these illegal means of making money, one can not blame the law or the man, but what the society is based upon. When the name carries prestige it is often so easy to cause destruction and go unnoticed, the Buchanan family is a prime example of how one’s privilege can safeguard one from all of society’s harm and pain that comes along with life. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the idea of the American dream is tarnished through greed, corruption, and one’s …show more content…
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.” To the end the reader visualizes Daisy sitting across from her husband Tom eating, and nothing else, not even the slightest of bother she killed a man, nor that the man who loved her so much has died. A sort of luxury that only the prestigious and rich can afford, this immunity from all of the pain that life induces upon one. DAISY QUOTE ON SAYING DAUGHTER IS DUMB Daisy tells Nick that she hopes her daughter grows up dumb, so that she may be shielded from life’s harm; in reality however the daughter will be bubble wrapped from life itself, she will grow up not knowing the struggle of not knowing if there will be power next month, or even food- a luxury that the poor could never afford. The system that was accelerated by the war still has modern day implications, however one thing has remained the same “The rich get richer, the poor