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Fitzgerald II: The American Dream, Revisited and Revised — Homework
Draft your independent literary analysis essay this week on The Great Gatsby and the American Dream.
- 1.Explain in one sentence why "The Great Gatsby is about the American Dream" is a weak thesis.
- 2.How does Gatsby's path to wealth both fulfill and betray Franklin's self-made-man ideal from Week 7?
- 3.Draft your own specific, arguable thesis about how the novel complicates the self-made-man ideal.
- 4.Choose two of the novel's three symbols and draft one body paragraph of evidence and analysis for each, supporting your thesis.
- 5.Write a full literary analysis essay (thesis, at least two body paragraphs, and a conclusion that extends rather than restates the thesis).
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