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The American Dream In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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, …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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