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LIU Xiao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.01.007
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Ningbo Dahongying University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
ABSTRACT
Consumption has been paid much more attention in China in recent years and it is more popular in literature as well. This paper is trying to analyze the disillusionment of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby from the perspective of consumerism. Readers can better learn about Gatsby’s wasteful, luxurious and lavish consumption through the analysis of his great ambitions so that his twisted consumption impacts his wrong words and deeds and conduces his disillusionment of his American Dream.
KEYWORDS
consumerism, The Great Gatsby, American Dream, disillusionment
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