The Great Gatsby American Dream
"The Great Gatsby" a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Is set in the Roaring Twenties, a
period of great social and economic change in America, and explores the themes of love,
wealth, and the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that anyone, regardless of
their social or economic background, can achieve success, wealth, and happiness through hard
work and determination. The novel's protagonist, Jay Gatsby, embodies the ideal of the
self-made man who rises from humble beginnings to become wealthy and successful. However,
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The idea of lacking morals runs rampant in this story as several characters are shows as
being like this while having everything they could want in life; such as how nick feels about
Jordan “she was incurably dishonest”(Fitzgerald 46) while also having a superiority complex and
cheating in a golf tournament simply to keep her fame and reputation. This shows
abandonment of ethics to achieve selfish desires, something that we see in modern times all
too much in sports and careers to get the edge over everybody else for their own goals. They
are described as people who “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into
their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other
people clean up the mess they had made…”(Fitzgerald 137). Showing the authors use of diction
and other characters observations to show These wealthy powerful people have little care for
anything else other than themselves. They forget about the struggles normal people in the
workforce “we worked seven to seven with no overtime pay”(Ruth Stone line 7). Treating
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The Great Gatsby was a big eye opener to the time
of the roaring twenties Fitzgerald gave plentiful insight to the kinds of things that were
happening through a story of a group of characters all connected through corruption, scandal,
and relations and a goal of showing the lure of a corrupted american dream where people would
abandon morals and relationships to become wealthy and powerful using greed and illegal
activities shown the most in the Character Gatsby who exemplifies all of these things. Fitzgerald
using brilliant use of irony and diction to get these themes and points across in this story and
being able to draw connections between then and present day where the idea of the american
the dream still exists and the actions of people are still present