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Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later

COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the transcendent. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ is displayed in a bookshop.
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America

The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning ...