John+Materialism

**All of the characters in the Great Gatsby took advantage of others, whenever they “just saw opportunity” to achieve their dream (Fitzgerald, 116). **  **In the end, Gatsby learned his dream “was already behind him” (Fitzgerald, 180). **   


 *  Fitzgerald thinks that trying to achieve a materialistic dream is pointless because one cannot have everything, and therefore, that “one fine morning” will never come (Fitzgerald, 180). **

  media type="custom" key="6300739" As De Tocqueville observed, “The passions created by property are the keenest and most tenacious among the middle class” (De Tocqueville, 625). ** Materialism reflection
 * De Tocqueville believed that materialism is “a dangerous disease of the human mind.” (De Tocqueville, 668). **
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