American Dream
The Great Gatsby was never a bestseller during FItzgerald 's life, it didn’t become a bestseller in till after World War II. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a eye-opening delight to the life of Jay Gatsby through the broad ideas of social class, the American dream and the colossal contrast between old money and new money in the 1920s. The insightful character of Nick Carraway narrates the novel, taking us into the complex relatable experiences of enormous parties, scandalous love triangles and tragic death. The american dream in that time period was to be a family man, have a big house and lots of money but fitzgerald makes it into something much different. He protreads the American Dream as always continuing to strive for what you want. So through the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Great Gatsby he illustrates the American Dream through the lifespan of Jay …show more content…
However, that has not always been his way of life. Jay Gatsby used to be James Gatz, a young man in the army who once stumbled across a beautiful house owned by Daisy Fay’s family. When Gatsby saw Daisy’s house he thought it was so beautiful but what made the house even more breathtaking was Daisy. It was said that “in various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people [of the rich class], but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. (Fitzgerald 148). To Gatsby Daisy was different some sense being the only nice girl of the rich class to have met him. So Gatsby fell for daisy, but he didn 't just fall for her. He fell for lifestyle and the environment she lived in. So as the “ penniless young man without a past” (Fitzgerald 149) that could not take care of the love of his life or produce the lavish life she lived in shed his uniform, changed his name to Jay Gatsby and his American Dream was
The Great Gatsby was never a bestseller during FItzgerald 's life, it didn’t become a bestseller in till after World War II. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a eye-opening delight to the life of Jay Gatsby through the broad ideas of social class, the American dream and the colossal contrast between old money and new money in the 1920s. The insightful character of Nick Carraway narrates the novel, taking us into the complex relatable experiences of enormous parties, scandalous love triangles and tragic death. The american dream in that time period was to be a family man, have a big house and lots of money but fitzgerald makes it into something much different. He protreads the American Dream as always continuing to strive for what you want. So through the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Great Gatsby he illustrates the American Dream through the lifespan of Jay …show more content…
However, that has not always been his way of life. Jay Gatsby used to be James Gatz, a young man in the army who once stumbled across a beautiful house owned by Daisy Fay’s family. When Gatsby saw Daisy’s house he thought it was so beautiful but what made the house even more breathtaking was Daisy. It was said that “in various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people [of the rich class], but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. (Fitzgerald 148). To Gatsby Daisy was different some sense being the only nice girl of the rich class to have met him. So Gatsby fell for daisy, but he didn 't just fall for her. He fell for lifestyle and the environment she lived in. So as the “ penniless young man without a past” (Fitzgerald 149) that could not take care of the love of his life or produce the lavish life she lived in shed his uniform, changed his name to Jay Gatsby and his American Dream was