american dream Gatsby and grapes

• overall argument 


  Both Fitzgerald and Steinbeck argue that the American dream is an ideology where someone has to work hard for what they want to achieve. Fitzgerald argues that the American dream was born corrupted and its unattainable as America has lost its way. Steinbeck argues that the American dream has become corrupted through dreams as the meaning and purpose of the dream has died.
• Gatsby 1 - myrtle has a dream

  "I want to get one of those dogs... I want one for the apartment. They're nice to have - a dog". "I married him. I knew I was marrying a brute". "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman". "set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it". "Versailles"
• Gatsby 1 critic 


  Decker "critic have turned the great Gatsby into the novel of America". truslow Adams "the American dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement"
• Gatsby 2 - myrtles death 


  "her left breast was swinging lose like a flap, and there was no need to find the name of the manufactor for the name of the manufacture was also on the dress" "the 'death car' as newspapers called it, didn't stop." "mingled her think blood with the dust"
• Gatsby 2 critic 


  Morgan 'The great Gatsby, a work of often used to demonstrate the emptiness of the commercialised American dream". Castro"the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay" - passed through generations
• grapes 1 - rose of Sharons dream 


  "we can live in a town" "western love stories". "me an' connie don't want to live in the country no more".
• grapes 1 critic 


  Crockett "not a promised land, but a blighted eden". - California is not the land of opportunity for the migrants. Spangler "Steinbeck has smashed the nations of the American dream " it is an illusion
• grapes 2 - rose of Sharon doesn't achieve her first dream - changes it

  "the two women looked deeply in to each other". "her hand moved behind his head and supported it". "her lips came closer together and smiled mysteriously"
• grapes 2 critic


  Irvine "women in Steinbecks novels are portrayed as adaptable in times of adversity".
• Gatsby context


  in the 1920s the American dream took a distinct form characterised by materialism, individualism and the pursuit of success and wealth. Was referred to as the roaring twenties or the jazz age and was marked by significant economic prosperity and technological advancements.
• grapes context 


  The concept of the American dream underwent a significant shift due to the Great Depression. The economic downturn led to widespread unemployment, poverty, and social upheaval, reshaping the ideals and precipitations associated with the American dream.