The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzegerald is a great representation of the mindset that the people had in the time it was written and the places it describes. The mood and tone set for the events that are told are very dreamy and fantasy-like. After all, the book’s main characters are indeed people that followed and ultimately achieved their so-called “American Dream”.
The American Dream is a concept that was born with the United States’ independence as a country but defined specifically in the 1920-30s as the idea that any person in America that has their aspirations and goals shall achieve them and become successful, be they from any place or background. As long as a man is determined to reach his goal, he shall do so and be rewarded in the end. Not only that, but actually any one has the opportunity for success, it is just that not every one uses it. Even though the present at the time was not such a great place - there were many problems going on in the country and it was a
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Ultimately, we also learn that Gatsby’s end-goal is to get Daisy - the love of his life back. Daisy, in this case, would be the very embodiment of Gatsby’s own American Dream and throughout the book he reveals his true intentions of pursuing her. When speaking of how the text would have been different, were it written at a different time, one could say that men in pursuit of women have drastically changed in their behaviour. Even today, a lot of men, just like Gatsby, do not take into account the possibility that the woman they are pursuing is either not interested or are not ready to abandon their lives for the said men. Even though the case whether it is mutual love or not in the story is much more complicated and can not be explained in a single sentence, strictly speaking it does not change Gatsby’s nature - the nature of a