Great Gatsby Persuasive Essay

Brian Ramirez D Block Mrs. Cooney 5/28 Dear school committee, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an American classic that has been taught to generations, it would be very inconsiderate to just stop teaching it because it is a timeless novel that teaches you about the true meaning and the depravity of the American dream and what it does to someone's mindset and how it can destroy lives The Great Gatsby takes place in the roaring twenties which is known for its extravagance and societal change. After WW1 the economy was booming and people had a lot of money flowing so they liked splurging their money and doing whatever. In the novel they focus on one particular man named Jay Gatsby. He is described as a wealthy and mysterious man who

This is why schools need to teach this because it helps students realize that change is something that happens. Another good way that the novel and article reflect the American dream is how people will do anything to achieve it and there is nothing that can get in between them to obtain it in the novel, people do some ridiculous things for money “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol”(133). This shows that people did just about anything to reach this dream, which caused them to abandon their morality and do whatever is necessary to gain wealth. Another thing that the article shows is how crazy Gatsby actually was to achieve his American dream and the article really paints him as a maniac” set up a fake identity and bought himself a certain kind of celebrity and then dazzled and seduced another man’s wife and nearly persuaded her to run away with him.” This quote shows that what Gatsby did in this novel is completely ignore the world around him just to be with daisy which shows how the American dream can corrupt people and bring them to do the absolute worst which is why we need to be to continue teaching it so students don't try and cheat their way up to the