No Matter if You are Black or White

We see this when the narrator learns of his run away suspension. He stumbles back to his office in shock and confusion, throws up, and past c overs one of his eyes in order to regain his focus. This is emblematical of how the "American ambitiousness" is only an illusion and remains beyond the reach of black vision. The protagonist unfortunately doubts his own abilities over this incident and believes he is responsible, "Somehow, I convinced myself, I had violate the code and thus would have to submit to punishment" (Ellison 145).

The "American trance" is denied Jay Gatsby by outside forces, but his fortunes stand in sharp contrast to those of the protagonist of Invisible Man. Gatsby is the darling of the have a go at it Age set, to whom material passions, reckless behavior, and substance use were measures of value. Gatsby is a self-made man of enormous wealthy, one example of "American Dream" success, despite his connections to organized crime. Gatsby version of the "American Dream" is one of ostentation, flamboyance, and excess. As the conservative and Midwestern bred narrator tells us, "Gatsby delineate everything for which I have an unaffected scorn" (Fitzgerald 8). It is a material, superficial, and valueless culture that infuses Gatsby with romantic notions of the "American Dream" that will evermore remain out of reach in reality.

To Gatsby, material wealth does not fulfill him nor do the superficial lifestyles of those who will consort to his parties but r

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: 1948.

In What Happens to a Dream Deferred, Hughes questions the fate of all the aspirations deferred by African Americans in the acquaint of racism and discrimination. He wonders if they "dry up / like a raisin in the sun?", "fester like a huffy", "stink like gooey meat" or a number of other fates (Hughes 1). His negative imagery like sores and rotten meat are meant to express his anger at the evil of robbing people of dreams because of race, and also expresses the unpleasant condition of many African Americans who were robbed of any hope or dreams. The ending of the poem reads about like a warning when Hughes wonders of the fate of a dream deferred, "Or does it just explode?", (Hughes, 1). Today's impoverished inner-cities might stand for such an explosion of deferment.

Hughes, L. Afro-American Fragment, 1.

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