Wall+One

= The American Dream =

Reflection

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. 

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As Americans we're constantly reaching out, Moving on a journey towards our dreams, our goals in life, Building up this dream as we go, So that when we reach the destination, It's not always as amazing as what we've built it up to be, So does that mean we haven't achieved the American Dream? That we weren't successful? __Success__ is the journey, not the destination. Because the journey itself is the American Dream. The American dream is the ability to dream and to pursue the ephemeral. A series of dreams strung into the narrative of a person's life.

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"I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of the dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness." (The Great Gatsby, pg 21).

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"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year... Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

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Wall Two--Body Image in America Wall Three--Poetry in America The Fourth Wall--The American Advantage