Corruption Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

Proving F. Scott Fitzgerald's American Dream Have you ever really thought about what the American dream is? The freedom to gain wealth and riches and never have to worry about losing it. It’s also the freedom in choosing a partner and raising a family in your way of raising them. Sounds great right? Well, it’s not always the greatest. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the truth of the American dream through the main character, Gatsby, and other characters. Fitzgerald shows a lot of things through Gatsby about what he thinks about it. The Bible also says a lot about the American dream, but more specifically about gaining money, and how to use it.

Some people know about and try to live the American dream, but others are not fully

Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the American dream in The Great Gatsby was incredible. He showed the real truth and corruption that the American dream can bring upon. Now of course, not all people who attempt to live the American dream will fail, but people may not always truly get what they want when given the opportunity. Even then, whatever you own in this world doesn’t matter much anyways, as you can’t take it with you after you die, but people didn’t want to settle on this fact and kept going for the things of the world that made them happy. According to “The Corruption of the American Dream” from Union College, “Fitzgerald portrays the roaring twenties as an era of decayed social and moral values.” This shows that Fitzgerald wasn’t representing the twenties as a good time necessarily, but merely a time when society was getting corrupted. Not everything was terrible, as there was a lot of good that came out of the roaring twenties, such as jazz (etc). In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is shown living his life purely for Daisy. None of the wealth he gained was ever for himself, and he threw parties to get her attention, not for him to have fun. He did illegal things to get the money and then showed off the money to get Daisy back, as she had left him when he was poor. He did end up gaining a lot of wealth by the time he died, but he never got what he truly wanted, which was Daisy. He didn't know Daisy didn't like the parties he threw, which is why she never came over. Even after all of the parties he threw, no one knew him all too well, because they would show up uninvited just to have a good time and this showed at his funeral. No one even really came to his funeral, so he never really gained any popularity from the parties he threw. He never gained any money by actually living life, he did it from illegal things. “The Corruption of the American Dream” from Union College states, “Fitzgerald displays the greed and selfishness behind the ultimate goal of