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This paper analyzes the male characters in The Great Gatsby, the representative piece by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the perspective of new colonialism. The writer aimed at observing the mental state and aeriality of Tom, Gatsby and Nick in association with their relationship with women characters. The novel itself has been dealt in the perspective of American Dream, the author perceives the characters’ material-driven states and its devastation as a type of mental slavery. The American society in 1920s after the World War I is an era of mental devastation with many young people lost in their paths. Although America is the power that dominates the world, the members of the country, who have been ruling many minorities including African Americans had been devastated mentally and culturally. In other words, their mental wilderness is similar to the colonial rule. In order to overcome such state of mind and get self awakening, the characters themselves have to put much effort forth.
