Nearest cities: Conshohocken borough, PA (0.9 miles ), Bridgeport borough, PA (1.7 miles ), Plymouth Meeting, PA (1.8 miles ), Bryn Mawr, PA (1.8 miles ), King of Prussia, PA (1.9 miles ), Norristown borough, PA (1.9 miles ), Radnor Township, PA (2.0 miles ), Haverford College, PA (2.1 miles ).
Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
The phrase, âThe American Dreamâ is not actually used by Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. It was coined in 1931 by writer and historian James Truslow Adams. The son of God part also plays into the theme of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby, showing how Gatsby feels he must achieve wealth and secular prosperity]â¦he is so ashamed of [his unsuccessful family heritage] that he canât keep their name, nor accept them as the family he was born into.