logan cox assignment 1

Ludvigson alludes to Fitzgerald and the American dream that he wrote of in The Great Gatsby. it plays on them disagreeing about the American dream. Ludvigson says "they disagree about the American dream" which was a very big idea at the time. the allusion adds to the theme of American individualism and the easy nature of that time period. the American dream was what Fitzgerald identified in The Great Gatsby as the exciting and rich lifestyle of the '20s and that is what the people in the café are referring to.