The Book that Killed the American Dream

SOURCES:
Scott Fitzgerald's Criticism of America Author(s): Marius Bewley
A Reality Check on the American Dream in The Great Gatsby: A Textual Analysis through Strain Theories Rahul Borah
The Waste Land and the Valley of Ashes: What Remains of the American Dream Alec Leibsohn
American Dreaming: Really Reading The Great Gatsby William E. Cain
The Failure of the American Dream in “The Great Gatsby” Zamira Hodo
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Money, Money, Money Otto Friedrich
"Herstory" and Daisy Buchanan Leland S. Person, Jr.
America in Fitzgerald, Ronald Berman

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[Jawn..]

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[SpoopySquid]

My favourite part is when Jay says "I'm done horsin' around" and pulls out his Great Gat

[spiritualanarchist]

The American dream used to be in the future, by now it's in it's past. It's never been in the here and now.

[hushslade]

Congratulations. You've done what my high school teacher couldn't do and made me understand this novel. Thank you.

[rinat]

I remember beefing so much with my English teacher in high school cuz she thought gatsby loved daisy and not the life she represented😭😭

[HorsesOnYT]

i made this video because i didn't do my assigned reading in high school (which was the great gatsby), then the great gatsby later became one of my favorite books. it seems to me that many readers do not see the darker undercurrents of the work. it is also funny that such a dour indictment of the american dream is almost universally assigned as required reading for teenage students here in the US.

i hope you enjoy

<3 -michael

[smileyday]

“Thats why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin

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[SutekhTheDestroyer]

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[xspookies]

IM SO EXCITED TO WATCH this is one of my fav novels with one of the best closing lines ever: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

[WhiteTulip]

Thank you for using clips from an older version of The Great Gatsby instead of the modern one. The aesthetics of the old one are on point and the emotions on their faces are perfectly timed with the script

[amisenc]

The way you narrate and create your videos is incredible. No cheap tricks to fool us to pay attention. Instead, you demand that we pay attention and reward those who decide to put down their phone and follow along. Your videos have an intriguing and almost hypnotizing quality to them. Really glad i found this channel.

[procrastinating_celery]

10:42 A little correction- Gatsby doesn't proclain that Daisy is a catholic. That was Tom's reasoning behind why he couldn't divorce Daisy and just get remarried to Myrtle.

I'm so glad you made a video on this. I'm not an American and I only just rec ently read the great gatsby and watched the movies. It's nice to get a little context behind what inspired the book.

[NECRAZ]

This book description is so dark and real with such intensity that relates to how it's meant to be, a world where the rich are built on the foundation of the poor and their suffering.

[airplanetowardsthesky]

I always saw east and west egg as represented the east and west coast of America as well. West coast being more free from classes and has new money while east coast is strong into holding onto class and is old money. Valley of ashes is just the poorer fly over states that the rest of the country looks down on even though they need them for farming and industry

[uqif]

As someone who can't focus on a single sitting position alone for more than ten seconds, this hour-long video had me glued to my screen and inspired me to read The Great Gatsby that's been rotting in my bookshelf! Thank you for the well-spoken and greatly edited insight into the classic.

[Dank_Engine]

For a lot of us, the American Dream has always felt like a travel brochure to a place you’re sure exists, but you’ll only ever seen on TV

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