Symbolism In The Great Gatsby

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of his stories sum up his view of the american more than what he said in a letter to his own daughter “life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat . . . the redeeming things are not 'happiness and pleasure' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle”. He also show the failure of the America dream with the symbol of the valley of ashes. while in the valley of ashes Tom has an affair, and that shows the proof that the wealthy class tended to have no moral value to their lives. (pardis 81) In connection to the themes of the american dream and the distortion of it, Fitzgerald also wrote a lot about the wealthy class, money and ambition were almost undividable from his works. He was constantly laughed at