Fun fact: The name of the novel and the subject of the essay (The American dream) are closely related to each other as they both include literary devices, the title of The Great Gatsby includes alliteration, while the American dream contains irony. The american dream (an ideal that all Americans want, or should strive for in order to attain happiness) is one of the ideas the book is based upon. The Novel itself was published April 10th 1925. The book, as well as it’s author both have a legacy to last them a lifetime. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his novel The Great Gatsby to show his opinion of the American dream. He shows the American dream in a different, or rather, a polar opposite perspective than his peers. One that leans away from socio-economic …show more content…
Furthermore it has a great deal of people who scrutinize it. With this in mind it is puzzling to see the majority of the readers and critics that remain ignorant to the fascinating way that Fitzgerald can distinguish his slightly obscured, but still straightforward, distasteful views towards the American dream. Marius Bewley, “contends that Fitzgerald, through The Great Gatsby, offers up a rather harsh critique of the American Dream and not merely a ‘pastoral documentary of the Jazz Age’ as is often suggested”(“Bewley”). In other words, Fitzgerald does a splendid job making his thoughts on the American dream both obvious and hidden at the same time. But his thoughts are no doubt, not in favor of the rest of his generation.. Once again it is duly noted that “Fitzgerald’s scrutiny of the American dream is sharp-- and pointed directly at the heart of American Ideology.”(“Callahan”). The dream itself is “ambiguous, contradictory, romantic in nature, and undeniably beautiful while at the same time grotesquely flawed” (“Callahan”). A very well-rounded summation of how Scott sees the American dream from both sides. Yet it is still evident that he sides with the “Nightmarish” theory as stated before. One passage even claims