This opinion is written by a very eloquent high student student who has friends waiting for the DREAM Act to be signed. - - Donna Poisl
by Viviana Cruz, senior at Newman Smith High School
It's been almost 100 years since the greatest critique of the American Dream was published, a subtle stab at the materialistic sentiment prevalent in post-World War I American society. I wonder if the disillusioned literary master, F. Scott Fitzgerald, would once again cast his gaze down and turn his back in shame at American society today.
When most people think of The Great Gatsby, they think of the materialism. We aren't all that materialistic, nor is 2010 exactly 1922, in its prosperous, victorious superficial glory. In fact, we are fighting another nation's war, struggling to secure our own borders and desperately seeking to escape a recession. So why would 2010 cause Fitzgerald to feel anything but reassurance that the United States had come a long way from that anomie-loving country of the 1920s?
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