Delanie Colborne
AP Literature and Composition
Bowman
12 April 2016
Title?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the withering American dream by focusing on the importance of money and social class during the twenties. Throughout the novel the reader clearly sees the separation between classes and how they are presented. Fitzgerald’s work shows the absurdities of social standards and the boundaries that are set because materialistic values are altering the lives of Americans as they become almost obsessed with having money and wealth. Through the descriptive analysis of the characters and settings, Fitzgerald emphasizes his ideas of the over importance of financial well-being and social status as traditional values fade in the roaring twenties. Fitzgerald uses the theme of the corrupted American dream in several of his works. Characters within the novel exemplify an extreme hunger for wealth and desire to be financially superior. Fitzgerald separates people into three social classes: those who obtained family money, those who worked hard to earn their money, and those who don’t have money. Fitzgerald …show more content…
Though Tom and Daisy are married, they are not happy or loyal to one another. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, a woman who was married, and Daisy is having an affair with her long lost love, Jay Gatsby. She and Gatsby had a romance in their earlier years, but Gatsby was not wealthy enough for Daisy at the time. It would have been frowned upon for her to marry a man of lower social class and wealth. Since then she has married Tom, because he was of higher social class, even though she didn’t love him. This is one of the issues with the society at that time. People got married for wealth and money rather than their feelings for one another. The social standards being as strict as they are caused two people who truly loved each other to not end up
AP Literature and Composition
Bowman
12 April 2016
Title?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the withering American dream by focusing on the importance of money and social class during the twenties. Throughout the novel the reader clearly sees the separation between classes and how they are presented. Fitzgerald’s work shows the absurdities of social standards and the boundaries that are set because materialistic values are altering the lives of Americans as they become almost obsessed with having money and wealth. Through the descriptive analysis of the characters and settings, Fitzgerald emphasizes his ideas of the over importance of financial well-being and social status as traditional values fade in the roaring twenties. Fitzgerald uses the theme of the corrupted American dream in several of his works. Characters within the novel exemplify an extreme hunger for wealth and desire to be financially superior. Fitzgerald separates people into three social classes: those who obtained family money, those who worked hard to earn their money, and those who don’t have money. Fitzgerald …show more content…
Though Tom and Daisy are married, they are not happy or loyal to one another. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, a woman who was married, and Daisy is having an affair with her long lost love, Jay Gatsby. She and Gatsby had a romance in their earlier years, but Gatsby was not wealthy enough for Daisy at the time. It would have been frowned upon for her to marry a man of lower social class and wealth. Since then she has married Tom, because he was of higher social class, even though she didn’t love him. This is one of the issues with the society at that time. People got married for wealth and money rather than their feelings for one another. The social standards being as strict as they are caused two people who truly loved each other to not end up