Examples Of Oxymoron In The Great Gatsby

In reading “The Disillusionment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Dreams and Ideals in The Great Gatsby” (Article 1) and “Oxymoron in The Great Gatsby” (Article 2), I learned two differing points on how the concept of the American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby. Article 1 speaks to how the Great Gatsby symbolizes the American Dream through the characters of Nick Carraway and Gatsby himself, but also explains how it could also be a bad thing to want. From this point of view this novel was believed to be a romantic novel as well as a social statement. Fitzgerald himself experienced and was arguably the product of the American Dream in the early 1900’s. In Article 2, the author argues that the whole novel was an oxymoron on the American Dream. According to the second article, Gatsby had so much money and used it against others, but in Gatsby’s own opinion he felt that he wasn’t the ones causing all the problems among others. …show more content…
For instance, in Article 1 the American Dream symbolizes a life that is full of opportunities. In the eyes of Gatsby, the American Dream was based on money. Money is what all people need or want in today’s world, but it has always been at the root of people’s desires in the past. A way I see it is a low-income family working their way to a higher and wealthier class status. Through experience, The Great Gatsby symbolized and mirrored a part of my life and how my family and I were part of the lower class, but from working hard we have moved to a middle class and continue to keep moving