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This essay is in response to the prompt:
Consider the proposition that The Great Gatsby offers a damning critique of American society.
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Dismay at what America has come to represent, symbolised by the recurrent motif of the ash heaps that dominate the landscape between New York and Long Island, is what lies at the heart of The Great Gatsby. Located in the East, Nick Carraway recollects the summer of 1922 in an attempt to make sense of a world that for him has become covered in “bleak dust”. The pervasive “foul dust” that “floated in the wake” of Gatsby’s dreams is what threatens to close out “my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men”. Nick’s elegiacal remembrances of Gatsby enable him to recover the hope that has temporarily been extinguished from his life.
