At The Time Of The Louisville Flood And The Great Gatsby

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Margaret Bourke-White’s photograph “At the Time of the Louisville Flood” 1937 and F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby excerpt 1925 both include the idea of the American Dream and depict how it is greatly flawed. Margaret displays a photo in which she juxtaposes a group of struggling poor people who look emotionally defeated with a billboard that promotes the American way of life and displays it to be one of opulence. The Great Gatsby excerpt includes a description of a lavish and extravagant party full of people whom put on a completely fake façade and try to fit in to a specific aristocratic lifestyle in order to achieve what they believe is the ultimate American dream. Both the photograph and the excerpt display the Government’s fabricated idea of the American Dream and the reality of its extreme downfalls. They differ though due to the photograph “At the Time of the Louisville Flood” includes a poor mainly African American group whom don’t have the means to ever achieve the so called “American Dream” while in The Great Gatsby excerpt it includes a description of a very wealthy ...

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