“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end” (Bob Marley). During the 1920s – known as the raging twenties – the idea of the American dream was broken. The idea that it’s no longer about one achieving true happiness and individualism through hard work, but rather one’s desperate chase for riches, wealth, prosperity and money. Based in the twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, I believe, revolves around this idea of the American dream. The narrator, Nick Carraway, observes and experiences firsthand the idea that the American dream is corrupted. Nick is taken from western America and is tossed right into the middle of the rich lifestyle. I think it’s more what Nick …show more content…
Nick meets the great Gatsby and later learns that Gatsby once loved Daisy years prior but did not have enough money for them to get married. Now, five years later Gatsby has become rich, bought a mansion and thrown legendary parties in hopes that he could win back Daisy. Nick invites Daisy over for tea and after Daisy meets Gatsby the love from five years ago is revived and they begin to see each other. All seems good until one day when Tom figures out that Gatsby in madly in love with Daisy. Even though Tom is having his own affair he is infuriated by this and he reveals that Gatsby made his money in organized crime. After a huge argument Daisy realizes that she is in love with Tom. Tom makes Daisy drive back home with Gatsby while himself, Nick, and Jordan follow behind them. As they enter the valley of ashes they find that Myrtle has been struck and killed by Gatsby’s car. Gatsby tells Nick that it was Daisy who was driving the car, but he’ll take the blame. Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that it was Gatsby who ran over his wife. George hunts Gatsby down and shoots him, and then shoots himself. After all this, Nick arranges Gatsby’s funeral, breaks up with Jordan, and moves back out west to escape the