The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The American dream is the idea that everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby we are given a glimpse of 20th century New York; a story focused on the corrupted American dream. Many characters in the book are in pursuit of the American dream not aware of the impact their behavior will have in the end. The Great Gatsby is a tragic story portraying the downhill spiral of the American dream due to the carelessness of the wealthy.

Myrtle is chasing her American dream by having an affair with Tom Buchanan.Tom is a very wealthy man who is married to Daisy.Myrtle is unhappy with her husband George who is not a very wealthy man.Her image of living the dream was to go with Tom.She felt that her life would be complete and live the life that she was meant to

Every parents wants their child to amount to greatness and be the best their child can be. Parents tend to push their children and give them the mindset that through hard work and dedication that child can achieve anything. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald demonstrates parents lied about hard work and, so he ridicules the high class and lower classes, thus critiquing the American Dream. The American Dream is an idea to give people hope that through hard work one can achieve wealth, fame, and prosperity. This dream symbolizes the desire to attain a luxurious house, car and even a perfect marriage if one is diligent enough. It is represented by the idea of a self-sufficient man or woman who is determined to achieve

At the beginning of Chapter Four, Gatsby shows up at Nick 's door and tells him that they are having lunch in New York. On the way to lunch, Gatsby feels the need to clarify his past with Nick to make sure there is not any confusion about the topic. Nick, being suspicious of the fact that he was born into a wealthy Midwest family (in San Francisco) and educated at Oxford, "a family tradition", lets this go as a policeman pulls them over for speeding but lets them go after Gatsby shows the police a white card. Gatsby says that after touring Europe, he served, as a major in the military where he “tried very hard to die” but in his own words, “seemed to bear an enchanted life.” At lunch, Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, a professional gambler and the man rumored to have fixed the 1919 World Series. Nick also learns from Jordan Baker that in 1917, she met Daisy and an unknown military officer who watched Daisy 's every move. “The officer? Jay Gatsby.” However, Daisy 's parents didn 't approve, and she eventually moved to Tom, now her husband. Jordan tells Nick that on the day before her wedding to Tom, she broke down drunk reconsidering her decision but decided to go through with the wedding, though. The next April, Daisy and Tom had their girl. Gatsby still has an interest in Daisy. Apparently, it was not a coincidence that brought him to West Egg: He chose his house so that the house of his lost love would be just across the bay. Gatsby wishes that Nick invited Daisy over on an

Dance has shaped the way we look at many different things throughout history. It has shaped how people socialize, what music people listen to, and even whole eras. One such era is the roaring 1920s. How did people socialize in the 1920s? They danced the evening away. What music did people listen to? Jazz music that they could listen to while they danced the evening away. Dance was a huge part of what made up the glorious Jazz Age. So, when a book was written to describe the 1920s scene, no doubt there had to be dance, and lots of it. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the energy level of the parties, music, and dancing to represent a vast array of emotions within the characters.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (Fitzgerald 1). The first line of The Great Gatsby illustrates a heartfelt sentiment of treating others respectfully and not judging a book by its cover. However, as the chapter continues, the narrator Nick Carraway, suggests this propensity of tolerance is better used as leverage to entice more people to trust you and tell you their secrets. Nick is privy to the secret lives and untold truths of many rich and powerful people of New York because he could be trusted, whether he wanted to be or not. This is a constant theme throughout The Great Gatsby -- the internal struggle of F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrayed through his characters, of being a kind, honest person content to live his own life versus a grotesquely rich and selfish person who only cared about himself and living the illusive American Dream. The characters created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby strongly reflect influences of people and events in his life, and demonstrate facets of his personality that dictated how he viewed the world, friendship and love.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a glimpse into the lives of the high class of the roaring twenties through Nick Carraway’s, a simple man from the mid-west, eyes. This novel depicts the aspects of the American dream, and the truth about achieving it.

A beautiful and lavish lifestyle is what many dream to have. Myrtle obviously craves a life of wealth so much so that she is willing to have an affair with Tom. Tom is a man that represents the American Dream. She

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is written in the 1920 's during the prohibition, and the characters values and goals really shaped the theme. The book was written about how people lived and acted during the 1920 's. This paper will cover; how the values and goals of the characters were shaped by the values and goals of people in the 1920 's, how the values and goals of the characters shaped the setting of the novel, and lastly the overall theme of the novel.

The USA is supposedly a classless society, somewhere that dreams are hypothetically made and a place in which anyone can create a living for themselves if they work hard enough. However in all three texts there is evidence to suggest that this is not the case. The notion surrounding social inequality is certainly clear to see in these three texts, and perhaps surprisingly, as is the fact that in some areas it is affected by class systems, although this is not immediately obvious. All three texts being written in the early 20th century are set during periods of supposed freedom and equality, and all three writers use literature to challenge this idea. Hughes’ poetry focuses on racial inequality and how this ‘pushes’ him into a lower

The American Dream is the conviction that each and every American has equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity. It is, essentially, the basis that America was founded on: the promise of equality for all. That means equal opportunity for each individual, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and origin. Many people believe in the American Dream today: they believe that through hard work they will flourish and all will be well. Many people do not believe in this ideal and, if they do, think that it is unachievable. Among these skeptics included F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American writer who published the stories I will be focusing on in this paper: Tender Is the Night (1934), Winter Dreams (1922), and, most notably, The Great Gatsby (1925). Through these works Fitzgerald’s vehement uncertainty of the American Dream is palpable. In the three works previously stated, Fitzgerald writes about characters that desire to better their lives in one way or another. In The Great Gatsby there is Jay Gatsby whose motivation for obtaining his fortune was Daisy Buchanan, a debutante. In Winter Dreams there is Dexter Green who, very similarly to Gatsby, becomes infatuated with a wealthy girl by the name of Judy Jones. In Tender Is the Night there is Dick Diver, a character who inherently embodies the concept of the American Dream and Fitzgerald’s personal sentiment of it. Ultimately, the characters in each of these stories fail to obtain what they desire, whether

Myrtle Wilson is using her affair with Tom Buchanan as an entrée to a better life. She’s tired of being married to someone she regards as a loser. She wants to have fancy clothes and attend high-class parties. But she too is corrupted.

The novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald's, is based off people's perception of the American dream in society. In The Great Gatsby money is the center of many of the characters lives; but they soon see that money isn't everything and it can't buy love or happiness. Fitzgerald uses distortion to make people see how twisted the “American dream had gotten”.

Myrtle’s wish for a luxurious life is what tempts her into having an affair with Tom, which in turn harms her marriage with George and in the end this decision leads to her losing her

The American Dream is defined as “a life of happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by individuals in the U.S.”. This definition is reinforced by the character’s lifestyles in The Great Gatsby. Their goals are to achieve money, popularity, and power but through the novel their goals fall apart. Each person has characteristics of the American Dream in their lives but as the novel continues they lose these characteristics. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the main theme is the deterioration of the American Dream in the lives of the characters.