Crisis of Meaning in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
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As Caldwell puts it, “a Mommy, a Daddy, two-and-a-half children, a comfortable home the suburbs, two cars, a steady job, college educations, a secure future, all were constituents parts of a new, standardized, all-middle-class ‘national identity', perfectly packaged, easy to digest, and all based on the Dream of progress” (2006).... An in-depth appreciation of The Great Gatsby would expose the narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, to be the very person who seeks to resolve this confusion by turning his back on modernity and re-embracing the ‘truths' to which he is already accustomed to by going back to the West....