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land full of opportunities. But, those aspects has been diminished since the ideology of materialism has made people from East Egg to tear apart the land for their personal use. For instance, Nick states at the end of the novel “the fresh, green world”(180). This is an analogy to the American Dream on how during the 1920s immigrants believed that the United States was a place of optimism and possibilities. But then Nick explains how people (especially the upper classes) have taken advantage of a once beautiful land for their personal gain and destroy its purpose related to the land of opportunities. Overall, nick decides to leave back to the Midwest in order to escape from people’s greed.

17. The cover was painted by Francis Cugat, after reading the entire novel and thinking of the best way to depict it. The cove shows an enlarged picture of Daisy’s face showing that she is larger than life; since Tom and Gatsby worship her. In Daisy’s eyes the reader can see two naked women presenting the idea of seeing all of Tom’s affairs. Daisy is also shown with a closed mouth presenting on how she does not speak up for herself and does not want anyone to find out that she killed Myrtle. Along her face a green tear is shown representing on how the American Dream dies alongside with Gatsby. Lastly, at the bottom of her face many circles, and lights are shown to depict the theme of how Gatsby believed that time could be repeated, and how is mansion was depicted as a fair in which any person could be a part of. Overall, the cover presents the main aspects of what the novel is about.

18. Through Nick the reader listens to all the secrets that a character h