The Great Gatsby: Striving for the American Dream

The Great Gatsby: Striving for the American Dream 

For your final paper, you will bear all you have learned about writing, proposing and developing an argument, and using quotes with analysis to build evident that makes your case. You are to use the introduction and conclusion structures taught in class, along with the model for body paragraphs ( assertion: frame of quote, quote, analysis, synthesis) to craft a proper paper. The paper is to be a minimum of 6 full pages (6th page is the citation page) in length and no more than seven pages.  Please be sure to render your paper in Times New Roman 12- point font with one-inch margins all around, a proper header that is single- spaced, a double-spaced paper with pagination, and an original title. 

For your final paper, you will bear all you have learned about writing, proposing and developing an argument, and using quotes with analysis to build evident that makes your case. You are to use the introduction and conclusion structures taught in class, along with the model for body paragraphs ( assertion:frameofquote, quote, analysis, synthesis) to craft a proper paper. The paper is to be a minimum of 6 full pages (6th page is the citation page) in length and no more than seven pages.  Please be sure to render your paper in Times New Roman 12- point font with one-inch margins all around, a proper header that issingle- spaced, a double-spaced paper with pagination, and an original title. 

Possible ideas to consider:

• Idealism, utopian dreams, (self-) reform, “the self made man”
• Striving, restlessness, impatience, overreacting, competition
• Rags-to-riches narrative, hard work ethic, determination, resolve
• Conspicuous consumption, capitalism (and its discontents), (un) happiness, wealth vs. riches, class, class oppression, the role of servants
• Heterosexual longing, the ideal family life, homoerotic desires, gender expression, gender norms and roles, transgression, secrecy & privacy, adultery
• Classism, racism, sexism, anti-Semitic prejudice, the white “master race” ideal, biases
• Mobility , role of cars and trains, social mobility, movement, longing, boredom
• Ethics, honest work vs. criminal/unethical business, fraudulence vs. honesty
• Sports, gambling, betting and game-play, play-acting, posing, mimicking others