The Great Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about Jay Gatsby, a mysterious, rich, party giving man, who tries anything to get back to his dream girl Daisy, married to an aristocratic man, but he will lose everything he had. I will explain the American Dream, described by the author in his most famous novel. The Great Gatsby is a story during 1922 and is set in Long Island, New York and is the most symbolic city of the 1920s in America, especially the disintegration of the American dream in an era of material excess and decayed social and moral values of cynicism and empty pursuit of pleasure. Gatsby throws huge parties every Saturday night, where the upper class celebrates itself. A person from any social background …show more content…
In West Egg, where the newly rich guys are living and try to be like the aristocrats is a high social competition. The valley of ashes is the moral and social decay of America, and New York City the city of pleasure and money. The author portrays the newly rich as being vulgar and gaudy, who act like Jay Gatsby and live in a monstrously ornate mansion, wear extraordinary clothes and speed in nice cars. They are snobs. As a contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste and elegance, shown by Tom`s home. Gatsby, on the other hand, whose wealth comes from criminal activity, has a loyal heart, waiting outside Daisy’s window to make sure that Tom does not hurt her (Fitzgerald 167). Ironically, Gatsby’s good qualities like loyalty and love lead to his death, as he takes the blame for killing Myrtle rather than letting Daisy be punished, and the Buchanan`s bad qualities of fickleness and selfishness allow them to remove themselves from the …show more content…
People do not think that he is an Oxford guy, because he does not speak like one (Fitzgerald 69) and is very extravagant, wears pink suits and drives his enormous yellow Rolls-Royce. He lives the American Dream with money by illegal ways, but tries to get as much as can get, tries to get to Daisy and steel her from Tom by showing his success to her. His American Dream is described as a sort of get-rich-quick scheme, his happiness and success were desired as quickly as possible and because his parents had no money, he left them in hope to get rich. At the end he dies, because he wants to persuade the total American Dream in a corrupt way. He also wants to be the best guy of the upper class, but is actually trapped in the middle