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How Does Gatsby and his past represents the American Dream?
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Gatsby started on low economic and social level, he worked hard towards prosperity, fame, and wealth to achieve Daisy's love.
How does the Love Triangle represents the American Dream?
> Tom and Daisy both came from the upper level in society. Daisy married Tom because he was rich. Myrtle also had an affair because Tom was rich.
Internal Conflict
Literary Elements for the External Conflict
Theme
>''Tom's got some woman in New York''(15).
>Wealth can get you anything but it can also get you killed.
> Gatsby has an unhealthy obsession with the past because he was once too poor to marry Daisy. While Daisy has moved on with her life, Gatsby has not. He goes to great lengths to win her love back and to repeat the past.
>''Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!... I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-''(37).
>''The God damned coward!... he didn't even stop his car''(141).
External Conflict
> The love triangle between Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle.
Literary Elements for the Internal Conflict
>''Can't repeat the past?... why of course you can'' (110).
>''I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before... she'll see'' (110).
> He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. (110).