Buzz Aldrin once said “I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.” People in America have a conception, if they work hard, in order obtain the life they desperately desire. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, contemplating his loss of love due to the Great War, Jay Gatsby throws massive parties, hoping to see Daisy Buchanan at his house. Similarly, in Chicago, directed by Rob Marshall, Roxie Hart desperately desires to become a recognized dancer in the city of Chicago. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby and the movie Chicago, society in the 1920s is perceived as being dark and corrupt, as many characters
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In accordance to the attitudes of the characters from the The Great Gatsby, money is a commodity every man must have in large amounts, to the intention of impressing the women they desire and live in adequate peace. Furthermore, Gatsby is completely blinded by his desire to be close to daisy that he “bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter”(Fitzgerald 133). However, in Chicago, money is represented as an item that persuades and controls the minds of the people that come across it. For Example, when Roxie is in prison, she is still able to pay the money Billy requested and gain a luxurious makeover to her once bare prison cell. Some wouldn’t even be able to afford the luxuries that Roxie got during jail. Overall, money in the 1920s, fueled the corruption of politicians, media, and society as a whole. A great majority believed that the American Dream, meant to have a lot of money and get away with almost
In accordance to the attitudes of the characters from the The Great Gatsby, money is a commodity every man must have in large amounts, to the intention of impressing the women they desire and live in adequate peace. Furthermore, Gatsby is completely blinded by his desire to be close to daisy that he “bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter”(Fitzgerald 133). However, in Chicago, money is represented as an item that persuades and controls the minds of the people that come across it. For Example, when Roxie is in prison, she is still able to pay the money Billy requested and gain a luxurious makeover to her once bare prison cell. Some wouldn’t even be able to afford the luxuries that Roxie got during jail. Overall, money in the 1920s, fueled the corruption of politicians, media, and society as a whole. A great majority believed that the American Dream, meant to have a lot of money and get away with almost