Logan Tatum
Ms. Maggert
English III Honors
20 March 2016
The Great Gatsby [ don't use the book title for your title. be creative and original. ]
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, readers are exposed to the moral decline of the 1920’s. Alcohol is illegal, parties are sneaky and private, and women are finally beginning to let themselves go. The American Dream is what many people are after at this point in time, but it never seems to be reached. Jay Gatsby corrupts the American Dream by allowing his obsession with wealth to keep him constantly wanting more and never satisfied.
Money. Old money, new money, and no money. During this time in history, materialistic items were the motive for a lot of people in America. At a party in the beginning of the book, a resident from the East Egg said, “I’d be a damned fool to live anywhere else”. This showed that it was no longer about who you were on the inside, but simply the place you lived, whom you knew, and what you owned. The want for money is what lead Gatsby to leave his family and become a bootlegger in the West Egg. Fitzgerald made Gatsby do this to show that anyone
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He always needed something to work towards because without it he felt that his life had no purpose. This was the true root of his deep infatuation with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby loved the chase. He loved trying to impress her and trying to convince her that his wealth, his love, and everything in between was better than Tom Buchanan’s. “The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o’clock a greenhouse arrived at Gatsby’s,” (Fitzgerald 100). Nick Carraway says when he and Daisy arrived at Gatsby’s mansion. Gatsby never wanted to be outshined. He wanted to convince each individual that he cared about them equally and he never did anything with less than one hundred percent effort. I don't believe that it was ever truly about what he would get when he achieved the goal, but the journey he would take along the