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How does Fitzgerald portray the American Dream in The Great Gatsby? Explain as simple as you possibly can.

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By using a literary device called motif, first motif is geography as represented be eat and west egg. The former is where the new rich live, those who have made a lot of money being entrepreneurial and the latter is where the people who have always had a money and have a class, dignity and manners unlike the west egg. And the other motif is Symbolic motif to represent various aspect of the American Dream
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