Examples Of Delusions In The Great Gatsby

Delusion Of The American Dream

In the 1920s, America was known as the decade of prosperity and desire of a perfect lifestyle. The American Dream is the ideal that every U.S citizen has equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity. However F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates how other factors hinder it such as archetypal and marxism. The theme of an unattainable American Dream is developed through Fitzgerald's use of feminism, materialism, and social class. Fitzgerald’s vision of ‘The American Dream’ conveys another delusion in the story The Great Gatsby, overall demonstrating the desire of perfection in creating a lifestyle, and presents how The American Dream is unattainable.
Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's development

Furthermore throughout the novel Fitzgerald illustrates how Myrtle is only described as her appearance and body, stereotyping Myrtle due to how her name is just equally unflattering as her body. Myrtle's death undignifies because of the destruction of her feminist characteristics, as a consequence of how “her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath” (p. 131). Myrtle, whom Fitzgerald uses only sexually-charged description, displays Myrtle as The Temptress as a result of how she explicitly cheated on her husband, to overall be with Tom Buchanan. Myrtle does this to be in the upper class, and convey the role of a perfect lifestyle. Fitzgerald uses strong diction of Myrtle’s death to convey how negatively her body is portrayed. Although Daisy and Myrtle portray the role of two opposing characters, Jordan portrays the modern American women even with all the contradictions and dualities

As a whole the novel views the wealthy as taking advantage of their class status inorder to do whatever they please, indicating that “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”(p.173). This illustrates how frustrated Nick is with Tom and Daisy because due to their social status they brush everything off after causing chaos within the society, and choosing to run away from their past. Fitzgerald expresses how juxtaposition perceives Tom and Daisy because both attempt to have a perfect lifestyle but the overall end results in chaos. Due to Myrtle and Gatsby’s death Fitzgerald presents how Tom and Daisy demonstrate the renewal of life because they know their money will shield them from having to face any negative consequences that come across them. Additionally Fitzgerald opens the novel with advice given to Nick from his father that mentions how “In my younger … years my father gave me some advice…“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”(p.1) Throughout the novel Nick ignores his fathers advice and begins to be very critical of the lower class, although he admires Gatsby’s status but repeatedly ignores his lower class background, all-embracing