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The Great Gatsby, The Black Sox, High Finance, And American Law, Allen Boyer
The Great Gatsby, The Black Sox, High Finance, And American Law, Allen Boyer
Michigan Law Review
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the great novel of America in the 1920s. It is about someone pursuing a girl, and, more than that, it is about someone pursuing a dream. Jay Gatsby is someone who believes in the American dream of success. His life plays out the most famous piece of repartee between Fitzgerald and Hemingway - that the rich are very different from you and me, because they have more money. Gatsby is a man who thought that if he had the money, he would be rich, and could therefore be different.
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