https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru F. Scott Fitzgerald en-us 2022-02-28 12:36:51 UTC 2025-12-06 13:56:48 UTC hello@padlet.com rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2069386354 F. Scott Fitzgerald did not support the American Dream because, his characters never get to enjoy the American Dream, and he himself was cynical about it.]]> 2022-02-28 12:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2069386354 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2069619996 Fitzgerald understood how history progressed and tied it in to his personal life. He understood how people could look back for the American Dream's realness. Distortions of the past have contributed to the American Dream being a lot stronger in the American Ethos. Nostalgia for the past tends to overpower any feeling that the American Dream was not somehow meant to be.]]> 2022-02-28 14:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2069619996 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077195463 The American Dream feels very real at first but then quickly becomes far different than what it is made out to be. He talks about how an elite few snatch up the wealth and even when someone becomes as wealthy as them, they still remain inferior to those with "old wealth".]]> 2022-03-04 03:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077195463 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077207468 “Undoubtedly, given the terror of World War 1, Gatsby’s reach back into a nostalgic vision of the past makes the novel more interesting, nuanced, and open fot interpretation. Scholars have discussed the role of nostalgia in fueling the kinds of reactions that readers get wen reading Gatsby, explaining, ‘Nostalgic experiences represent a distortion of both the past and the present. The good old days may not have been as good as they seem in retrospect.’”]]> 2022-03-04 03:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077207468 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077209571 “But a new age needs a new novel. If a star is in sociological terms an ‘incarnation of a powerful collective instinct,’ a direct or indirect reflection of the needs, drives and dreams of American society’---for wish fulfillment, romantic escapism, material indulgence--- so when the instinct is diverted the star is eclipsed. So Fitzgerald himself experienced the phenomenon of stardom, but later, fell into a decline.”]]> 2022-03-04 03:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077209571 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077218553 Tender Is the Night analyzes, in great detail, the American Dream. In the book, the character is having a great life with his girlfriend, and all seems to be going well. Abruptly, midway through the story, the Character starts to decline in livelihood. This shows an American Dream which is temporary, not lifelong as it is made out to be. As soon as there is some material to the so-called American Dream in Fitzgerald’s novels, it inevitably and inexorably gets taken away.]]> 2022-03-04 03:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077218553 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077219904 “From what Fitzgerald reveals in Book One, who would not want to be, or be with, Dick Diver? He is rich, handsome, and the envy of his large circle of friends. Although there are hints of pending trouble in his life, his world is a wondrous one. However,  as the wondrous truths about his and Nicole’s past emerge in Book Two, the stage is being set for his precipitous fall and ultimate disappearance in Book Three.”]]> 2022-03-04 03:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077219904 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077239368 2022-03-04 03:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077239368 rvarma9240 https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077245631 2022-03-04 03:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rvarma9240/f3kko9oue73nt9ru/wish/2077245631