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By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever. She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Steelbach hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. (135)

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"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth," (3).

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Some times it is not just about accumulating wealth but looking good to others through other means.

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The american dream is primarily focused on acquiring wealth and social statice, but it is ultimately unattainable, because of the tendency of americans to never settle. They want to appear as if they have more and look better than everyone else. They will never be truly satisfied until they have everything and everyone's attention.

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Thesis:
The american dream is primarily focused on acquiring wealth and social statice, but it is ultimately unattainable, because of the tendency of americans to never settle. They want to appear as if they have more and look better than everyone else. They will never be truly satisfied until they have everything and everyone's attention.

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For some the ultimate display of wealth, and social status is a large and fancy house.

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“When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn,”

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For some they are never satisfied with what they have and only look at what other have.

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People crave the attention and approval of others.

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“I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them,” (14).

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Being in a relationship can also bring you social statice, along with much attention.

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This picture shows one goal of many people, which is to be able to afford a car like this.

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People see what they don't have, and become jealous, even if they are already successful themself.

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“He stretched out his arms toward the dark water. . . . I . . . distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away. . . . When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished. . . .” (26).

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People love to be the center of attention, this demonstrates well, the jealousy that can occur when someone thrusts you out of the spotlight.

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“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,”(180).

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Not only does that person have to be from the same group as you (children), anyone could steal the spotlight.

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This shows all of the name brands that people strive to have. Not just because they are high quality clothes but, there is a certain Statice that come with owning them.