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The American dream of material success was nowhere so minutely explored as in the stories and novels of F.Scott Fitzgerald. Nearly all of his works concern the tension between the very wealthy and those--like him---who were attracted to them. In following lives of characters whose fates are determined by their responses to wealth and to those possess it, he gave us intimate insights into the American preoccupation with money.