The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.

Jay Gatsby grew up with big aspirations. The definition of the American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative, but his vision of the American Dream was beyond what he could have expected. Although things did not play out as he expected. Throughout the book, Jay Gatsby found himself unhappy, not being able to satisfy his large American Dream aspirations. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the protagonist has a strong devotion to attaining the American Dream, but it becomes unattainable for him because of his overpowering desire to always need something, or someone more.

The Great Gatsby is too concerned with conveying a picture of 1920s American society to have relevance to modern readers.

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.

The American Dream, is an idea that all Americans are familiar with, no matter what age they are. It is the dream that everyone has an equal opportunity, to use hard work and integrity to achieve success. The American Dream is an integral aspect of Jay Gatsby’s life in the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel follows Jay Gatsby, as told by Nick Carraway, through the trials and tribulations that correspond with newfound wealth and the quest to find true happiness in a cynical and testing environment. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream has the power to corrupt individuals, through his depictions of wealth, materialism, and the consequences they inflict in the character’s lives.

The idea of American Dream as presented by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Great Gatsby novel involves rising from poverty or rags to richness and wealthy. The American Dream exemplifies that elements such as race, gender, and ethnicity are valueless as they do not influence the ability of an individual to rise to power and richness. This American Dream makes the assumption that concepts such as xenophobia are non-existent in America a concept that is not true and shows vagueness of the American Dream. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the Great Gatsby to demonstrate the overall idea of living the American dream. Gatsby leaves his small village of farmers and manages to work his way up the ladder although some of the money he uses to climb the ladder is associated with crime “He was a son of God and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 6.7). This phrase shows that Gatsby wasn’t meant for a life similar to that of his father but rather destined for greatness. However, his dream his short-lived and he doesn’t make it to the top as Daisy who is a symbol of his wealthy rejects her and a series of events transpire that result in his death before he could live his American Dream alongside everyone else who was working up the ladder to live the American Dream.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is seen as a mysterious character that’s not called great or bad. The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s during the “roaring twenties” or called as the “Jazz Age”, a period ending the Great Depression and an era where jazz and dancing become trendy. Gatsby does not seem to be fit to be called “great”, instead he is fit for being called a determined man. Some may not call Gatsby “great” because of his lies and some will call him “great” because he is a man who is determined to get Daisy back from Tom or because Gatsby is a nice man who does not have much ignorance like Tom. An example why Gatsby do not deserve to be called a “great” man is because he is a liar and a “great” man does not

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main theme is most directly related to the American Dream. The American Dream is based on the idea that any person, no matter who they are, can become successful in life by working hard. The Great Gatsby is about what happened to the American Dream during the 1920's, an era when the dream had been corrupted by the relentless pursuit of wealth. The pursuit of the American Dream is the ultimate cause of the downfall of the main character, Jay Gatsby.

In the 1920’s, otherwise known as the “Roaring 20’s”, Americans believed [that] in order to live a life to the fullest, one would need to achieve their American dream. This idea of living a successful life is captured in Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. The character that best portrays trying to achieve their American dream would be Jay Gatsby himself. For Gatsby, the American dream was to climb the rigorous social ladder to have enough wealth to impress his love, Daisy, and recreate the past where he can rekindle the love he and Daisy once had because he wishes to obtain Daisy’s love once again.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about the American Dream. In the Great Gatsby, the dream is that one can acquire happiness through wealth and power. To get his happiness Jay attempts to reacquire the love of his lost sweet heart, Daisy. The main problem with Jay's dream is that Daisy is married. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream 'The pursuit of happiness'.

Doesn't everyone want to have the American Dream in our society today? One thing that stops someone is their motivation to achieve the American Dream, but that is not the case for Jay Gatsby. He is determined by never giving up on Daisy, the help of Nick, the reward of chasing after his dream, the knowledge of Dan Cody, and the getting to know Daisy. It is about the perseverance and the dedication of getting something done that someone has. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows throughout the story the American Dream and who represents it.

The American dream in The Great Gatsby written by Scott Fitzgerald, About fighting for what we want. American Dream makes us strong and brave to do things we would not do. American dream can be clothes, money, luxury, and love. In the novel the American Dream is what we picture but if we dig deep inside there are crushed dreams and conquered but failed. American dream is not what we all pictured in the Great Gatsby but they make us believe how great is life is. The Great Gatsby is about high class society where does not mean that all American Dreams come true but there are always a bad ending to their American Dreams.

In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is a perplexing character. She is charming and pretty, yet her personality is almost robotic. Daisy has no sincere emotions; she only knows social graces and self-preservation. A materialistic society makes Daisy a jaded person who lacks any real depth.

Within the American dream concepts, it views it as a form of rising perspective, giving the chance to any new person wanting to fulfill this dream. It states that it starts low economic and social level to a fame and richness status achieved within the rise and its property. It also represents people that are successful at this due to their work and achievements. It relates the origins of this on every individual on the hard work they imposed on themselves. However this is an aftermath on The Great Gatsby, that is actually going against it and showing it in a declining way were the state is more likely that its corruption and destruction, due to the 1920’s issues. All of the mentioned arguments apply in this case although the results are negative; Jay Gatsby and Daisy were the main controversy in the plot when representing the American dream in terms of the novel, and therefore people who purse it are in the same conditions. Although the main destruction of this was mainly on the emotional part it easily ended the lives of the 3 main characters in the novel. The reflective purpose of achieving something no matter the way, involving pursuing of the achievers, more likely gives us an arrogant and depressive emotional effect that before this it’s a hidden trigger, that therefore involves it on corruption leading into the next phase and giving a message of an “actual” achievement, which is the failure of it, the destruction and the bad image of the American dream.