The Great Gatsby 5

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…is just as fragile. History has proven that view correct. The sense of wonder of the first settlers in America quickly turned into an excessive greed for more wealth. The reality of the stock market crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s followed the ostentatious, wild lifestyle of the wealthy during the 1920s. Where there is great wealth, sadness and waste always seems to follow. The end product is always a valley of ashes.