The American Dream Flashcards
my grandfather’s brother…
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…started the wholesale hardware business my father carries on to-day
the white palaces…
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of Fashionable East Egg glittered along the water.
he stretched out his arms toward the dark water…
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… Distinguishing nothing except a single green light.
He was never quite still;…
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there was always a tapping foot somewhere.
it had occurred to him that…
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the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.
the old island here that flowered once for a dutch sailors… TGG
eyes- a fresh, green breast of the new world.
Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out…
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the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock.
that is happiness; to be dissolved
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into something complete and great.
I’d have liked to have you for…
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a sweetheart… anything a woman can be to a man.
(INTRODUCTION 4)- Jim is still able to…
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lose himself in those big Western dreams.
two big bulls, Gladstone and Brigham young=
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Bull named after mormon leader who led mormon pioneers out west- zeitgeist and cultural references.
(miller) My Antonia does not portray… the fulfilment American Dream…
the dreams of the pioneers lie shattered.
all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow…
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the living mask of green…. This is the truth.
they (Mormons) left Missouri and stuck out…
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into the wilderness to find a place where they could worship God.
More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed..
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to mean to us the country… the whole adventure of our childhood.
