Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays societal corruption and the American Dream, or rather, the American Nightmare. Nick Carraway represents the grace within simplicity, an unbiased and slightly naive view of New York during the roaring twenties. Although captivated and intrigued by the excitement of lifestyles such as the Buchanans’, Gatsby’s, and Jordan’s, the façade wears away, revealing the merciless face of moral degradation. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as a time of demoralization as the American people pursue empty pleasures, succumbing to greed and materialistic needs. Fitzgerald exhibits the disillusionment of the time period, evident throughout the novel, ending in Gatsby’s untimely death. Not unlike the rest
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Nick discerns that Gatsby’s efforts are futile, having lost Daisy to greed and wealth long ago. Heeding that Gatsby remains obstinate about Daisy realizing her love for him, Nick says, “He [Gatsby] did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night” (Fitzgerald 189). However perseverant Gatsby appears, his disillusionment of a life beside Daisy is merely that; a disillusionment that remains unrealistic.
Nick realizes that one cannot recreate the past, as Gatsby attempts to transform his dreams into reality, held back by his past. Nick writes, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 189). As Gatsby ventures into the future, struggling to achieve his dreams, he loses himself in his own mind, pursuing Daisy, who, although right across from Gatsby, slips further away into her wealth and
Nick discerns that Gatsby’s efforts are futile, having lost Daisy to greed and wealth long ago. Heeding that Gatsby remains obstinate about Daisy realizing her love for him, Nick says, “He [Gatsby] did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night” (Fitzgerald 189). However perseverant Gatsby appears, his disillusionment of a life beside Daisy is merely that; a disillusionment that remains unrealistic.
Nick realizes that one cannot recreate the past, as Gatsby attempts to transform his dreams into reality, held back by his past. Nick writes, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 189). As Gatsby ventures into the future, struggling to achieve his dreams, he loses himself in his own mind, pursuing Daisy, who, although right across from Gatsby, slips further away into her wealth and