Dreams In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Have you ever wondered about the impactful insight of how fantasies and human dreams shifted throughout history? The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel narrated by Nick Carraway, a character who narrates a story in New York in the 1920s about Jay Gatsby. More specifically, Jay Gatsby’s long journey trying to achieve his dream of being with Daisy Buchanan, as well as all of the factors impacting Jay Gatsby’s life. Furthermore, in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses characters to illustrate how he believes human hopes and dreams have lost their significance and modernized to the overall desire for wealth, social status, and self-pleasure. He is a force that strives people to pursue that dream; the impact of that strive is

Scott Fitzgerald portrayed characters like Gatsby and Myrtle as striving and motivated-to-action characters because they were allured by the force of the new modern connotation of human dreams and hopes to reach and achieve materialistic values like luxury, lust, and comfort. After Nick Carraway took in the new information about Tom Buchana’s affair with Myrtle, he later that day came to a conclusion about Myrtle and her husband how, “They’ve been living in that garage for 11 years and Tom’s the first sweetie she had,” (Fitzgerald 35). Myrtle had been living in the Valley of Ashes, where wealth inequality exists, and she dreamed of becoming wealthy; Myrtle was then illustrated and prompted to cheat on her husband, and the seductive dream and hope prompted her to take action because her husband could not provide her with luxuries, like a rich man could. After all, Myrtle dreamed of a life entirely of luxury and wealth, and Tom provided that, so Tom Buchanan was referred to as Myrtle's first sweetie. Nick Carraway overviewed James Gatz ‘s life and aspects and revealed a detail about Dany Cody where Nick exclaimed, “The Transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money” (Fitzgerald 99). Because of Dan Cody’s considerable wealth accumulation and the alluring dream and hope to accomplish the luxuries and dream of a life filled with wealth and luxury globally, women were encouraged to take action to find ways to derive that wealth. We can see that when in the quote, women tried to separate Dan Cody’s money from him, which meant detrimental means to gain that money, and this is portrayed through Ella Kai killing Dan Cody and receiving his wealth. Nick explained the quoted flashback of James Gastz’s life before becoming Jay Gastby, and realized that James Gastz, “invented just the sort of Jay