The Corruption Of The American Dream

The American Dream was the vision that brought many people to America to start a new life in a strange and foreign land. This vision or dream is a common discussion topic by modern writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the summer of 1922. On the surface, it seems that the novel is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman, but the masterpiece major theme is about the American dream. The author writes about a man who takes the dream too far and becomes unable to distinguish his false life of riches from reality.

The American dream can mean many different things and can be interpreted in different ways. To some people, the American dream is the belief that if a person works hard enough, he or she can be successful in America no matter what race, gender, or nationality. In the 1920’s, the concept of the American dream was very much the same, that an individual can achieve success in life regardless of family history or social status if he or she works hard enough. By having money, a car, a big house, expensive clothes, and a loving family symbolizes the American dream. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the 1920’s is a time period in which the American dream becomes corrupt and dangerous. For Jay Gatsby, a main character in the novel, his American dream is about gaining wealth and material possessions in order to find happiness. Through his decision to symbolize wealth, superficiality, irresponsibility, and foreshadowing, Fitzgerald conveys the the theme that the American dream is a perfect concept and is something that can never be accomplished, but can always be reached for.

Although "The Great Gatsby" is filled with multiple themes such as love, money, order, reality, illusion and immorality, no one would probably deny that the predominate one focuses on the American Dream and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The attempt to capture the American Dream is the central of this novel. This can be explained by how Gatsby came to get his fortune. By studying the process of how Gatsby tried to achieve his own so-called American Dream, we could have a better understanding of what American dream is all about, in those down-to-earth Americans' point of view. The characterization of Gatsby is a representative figure among Americans as he devoted his whole life to achieve his dream.

What is American Dream? What does it mean to you? What does it mean to me? Although we all have the same ideology of what the definition of what the American Dream is, we can all come up with a different meaning, each one more personal to ourselves than to others. As we will see with the help of three different authors, regardless of age, race, sexuality, religion, or social status, we could possibly agree on the idea of the American Dream falling short and being a false sense of reality for many Americans to this day.

The Great Gatsby is a novel based off of the American dream, which is something that everyone strives for. The author of the book F. Scott Fitzgerald has his own American dream to become a well known writer, and to have the girl of his dreams, and throughout the novel this dream reflected in The Great Gatsby within in the characters Gatsby and Daisy. Fitzgerald had developed the character Gatsby by incorporating some of his own dreams. For example Gatsby has a forbidden love for Daisy, but he cannot have her because she does not want to leave her husband, Gatsby also wants to do everything he can for Daisy but since she will not leave her husband Gatsby is doing all of this for no reason, and in the

In the past the American Dream was an inspiration to many, young and old. To live out the American Dream was what once was on the minds of many Americans. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream was presented as a corrupted version of what used to be a pure and honest ideal way to live. The idea that the American Dream was about the wealth and the possessions one had been ingrained, somehow, into the minds of Americans during the 1920’s. As a result of the distortion of the American Dream, the characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby along with many others, lived life fully believing in the American Dream, becoming completely immersed in it and in the end suffered great tragedies.

By article I read by Griffin and McFarland, I think, to America today, the main thrust and the heart of America has dependably been the "American Dream." The "American Dream" is an objective for a large number of individuals who live in the domains of the Americanized world. I trust that the "American Dream" is controlling my own particular predetermination, getting to be effective, and living free. Cases of this fantasy are things like TV, cars, markets, shopping centers, Internet, planes, trains, and so on. The "American Dream" is achievement, flexibility, and having the capacity to control your own particular fate. Getting to be fruitful has been the fantasies of numerous individuals of the over a wide span of time and I surmise that it is one the most vital things that a man must finish. Anybody and everybody can form into an effective individual, allowing that the individual conviction.

For generations many have immigrated to this great nation know, as the United states of America, all seeking for their share of the American dream. The American dream is the philosophy that anyone can become successful through hard work and perseverance. The 1920’s embodies this concept like no other decade in American history. It is also during this time frame that one sees the perversion of this dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests in his novel, The Great Gatsby that there is a right and wrong way to obtain the American dream. Throughout the novel, Gatsby is symbolic for the materialistic nature of the American dream and its corruption in the 20th century.

The American Dream is a dream about possibilities, and a desire for success. Sometimes you can interpret the dream for money, sometimes for love regardless of what the you think it is, the dreamer works hard to reach this goal. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is driven by his desire to achieve the American Dream. Unfortunately, Gatsby’s drive to achieve the dream also results in him falling victim to it. Essentially, Gatsby falls victim to the American Dream because he is forced to face the reality that his dream is just that, a dream that is out of reach and unrealistic. The novel also shows what happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s, which is a time period when the dreams became corrupted for many reasons. The American dream not only causes corruption but has caused destruction. In terms of the American dream, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals that to achieve anything in life one shouldn’t lose oneself in the process. The main elements of Gatsby’s American Dream is love, wealth and popularity/status. These concepts, Gatsby both attains and falls victim to them in his quest to fulfill his dream, the American Dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream as a set of goals that included freedom, settlement, and an honest life with the possibility of social and economic success earned through hard work, but was corrupted and degraded by the egotistical materialism of the 1920s. Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby, aims to discredit the supposed purity of the American Dream and belief that anyone can attain it through hard work. Instead, he argues that the dream is a delusion, altered so significantly from its original form. Its pursuers seek for and achieve nothing more than the hoarding of hollow material goods and empty pleasure. Fitzgerald

In the heart of everyone there is a “American dream”, but what is the “American dream”? Actually, it is of a good hope in mind and it is also that people want to get a better life through their own efforts, but what is the real motivation that people pursue the “American dream”? Many people say it is the thirst for money. But the pursuit of money has changed the present “American dream”. Like the hero of the novel, Gatsby does not hesitate to pursue his dreams even uses the improper means to obtain money, eventually the dreams shattered, which is the typical thing of many American dream disillusionment. There are many reasons of Gatsby American dream disillusionment, but his social time is the most important factor in his dream disillusionment.

In the years following the Second World War, the fabric of American society changed almost irreparably, shifting from a wartime society that saved and struggled to help the soldiers overseas survive in any way they could to a consumer society with everything that they couldn’t have before. When the soldiers returned from war, government programs like VA loans allowed them the opportunity to find the home of their dreams in the suburbs, not only so their hope to have a home of their own where they could raise their families and live the “American dream” could be realized, but so people could actually have a place to live in light of the housing shortage that had occurred in decades past. Newspapers told the story of horrible conditions in which

In the early 1920’s a new opportunity for many started arising and it was called the American dream, this idea was the idea that with a little hard work and determination you can start from the bottom and make your way to the top of any business you were in, but a few of these chasers get lost in the prosperity and achievements of what their chasing. This idea was portrayed in a the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, As a character named Jay Gatsby was climbing the ladder of wealth faster than anyone else to have it all be ripped away from him by Daisy Buchanan with her golden girl appearance which made Gatsby question at first then change his American dream to satisfy her, in turn leading to his final fall, his death. Unaware

The article “Rethinking American Dream” explains the evolution of the American Dream through the years, and how the modern view is quite different from how it was viewed in the past. Originally, the American Dream was an idea that gave promise to ordinary people, for a happy lifestyle. As times changed, it gradually became associated with fame and wealth. This changed the way society viewed its “promise” therefore changing what people were working towards. This relates to The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald because one of the main themes in the novel is the American Dream.

The Roaring 20's was an era of decadence and endless possibility. The American Dream was something that everyone coveted. Essentially, The American Dream meant that anyone who had the talent and worked hard enough, could achieve it. Money, a loving spouse, and status all showed that a person had been successful in their life and were vital points to the American Dreams of the Characters in the Great Gatsby. Many of them strived in their own way to achieve “the dream”, however, twisted ideals of love, wealth, and class led to the eventual fall of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby.