American Dream by Brady Allen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f Made with a dash of wit en-us 2019-03-06 17:29:29 UTC 2025-10-10 18:37:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 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. 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338505186 2019-03-06 17:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338505186 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338508759 People see what they don't have, and become jealous, even if they are already successful themself. ]]> 2019-03-06 17:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338508759 Quote : 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338510284 “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).

]]> 2019-03-06 17:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338510284 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338511049 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.]]> 2019-03-06 17:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338511049 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338511429 This picture shows one goal of many people, which is to be able to afford a car like this.]]> 2019-03-06 17:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338511429 Quote 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338516054 “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).

]]> 2019-03-06 17:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338516054 Quote 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338518257 “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).

]]> 2019-03-06 17:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338518257 Quote 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338519004 “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,”
(4).
]]> 2019-03-06 17:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338519004 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338519613 Being in a relationship can also bring you social statice, along with much attention. ]]> 2019-03-06 17:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338519613 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338522050 People crave the attention and approval of others.]]> 2019-03-06 17:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338522050 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338620322 For some they are never satisfied with what they have and only look at what other have.]]> 2019-03-06 21:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338620322 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338620931 For some the ultimate display of wealth, and social status is a large and fancy house.]]> 2019-03-06 21:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338620931 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338621493 Some times it is not just about accumulating wealth but looking good to others through other means.]]> 2019-03-06 21:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338621493 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338621997 People love to be the center of attention, this demonstrates well, the jealousy that can occur when someone thrusts you out of the spotlight. ]]> 2019-03-06 21:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338621997 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338622677 Not only does that person have to be from the same group as you (children), anyone could steal the spotlight.]]> 2019-03-06 21:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338622677 Quote 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338623847 "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).]]> 2019-03-06 21:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338623847 Quote 20ballen https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338632505 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)]]> 2019-03-06 21:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20ballen/av2vd5391u1f/wish/338632505