The Alluring Twenties Being the pinnacle of American Society, the Jazz Age symbolized the extravagant growth in culture, population, music, and the entirety of the American ideal. In a period were everyone possesses the innate ability to succeed and supersede the middle class quality of life, there lies the ultimate object in gaining and grasping the future, the American belief. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald imposes the fact that through the power of one’s mind to excel, he or she may be successful in a time of the twenties. Main characters Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway and George Wilson become the representing factors that create America’s illusion towards our nation’s ideal. The Jazz age was a time were
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For example, when Nick reiterates Gatsby’s relationship to the green light he states, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (180). Everyone during the twenties had aspirations to be great and be somebody but as like everything else this was just a figment of one’s imagination. The green light represents the inadequacies of the American belief as it was something that can not be touched, felt, tasted, and heard. After the war, men and women wanted to become more successful but in the belief of hard work and honest living underlies hypocrisy of the American fallacy. In addition, Nick tries to evaluate Gatsby’s early life and says, “ Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (98). Jay Gatsby represents the idealistic man who sacrifices his identity, image, ego, and pride in order to become somebody else. The American belief revolves around the idea that people should rise from all limitations and conform to the societal pressures. Throughout the twenties, the Jazz Age was filled with the prosperity of the plastic-minded in a sense that people acted as though they are barbie dolls who are subjects of manipulation towards a new change. Moreover, Senator John Kerry …show more content…
For example, as Nick describes the place between West Egg and New York he states, “This is a valley of ashes …of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (23). When immigrants in the twenties came to America in pursuit of success, they were hit with a blast of greed and lust towards material wealth which inhibits them from prospering. Between the rich world of West Egg and NewYork lie the hard workers that define what it truly means to be successful because they were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth and they did not earn money through corruption. The American ideal idolizes equality, but the traits of the value die within those who abuse its true meaning. In addition, as Nick tries to call Gatsby’s residence he says, “A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about” (161). In the Jazz Age, the rich control most of everything and as of today the rich still inhibit the American dream by controlling major corporations. Gatsby truly represents the ultimate destruction of our nation’s core values and the death of our nation’s hypocrisy. Some may say that our nation is dependent towards Americanism because without these large corporations, America would never be a major power. Regardless
For example, when Nick reiterates Gatsby’s relationship to the green light he states, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (180). Everyone during the twenties had aspirations to be great and be somebody but as like everything else this was just a figment of one’s imagination. The green light represents the inadequacies of the American belief as it was something that can not be touched, felt, tasted, and heard. After the war, men and women wanted to become more successful but in the belief of hard work and honest living underlies hypocrisy of the American fallacy. In addition, Nick tries to evaluate Gatsby’s early life and says, “ Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (98). Jay Gatsby represents the idealistic man who sacrifices his identity, image, ego, and pride in order to become somebody else. The American belief revolves around the idea that people should rise from all limitations and conform to the societal pressures. Throughout the twenties, the Jazz Age was filled with the prosperity of the plastic-minded in a sense that people acted as though they are barbie dolls who are subjects of manipulation towards a new change. Moreover, Senator John Kerry …show more content…
For example, as Nick describes the place between West Egg and New York he states, “This is a valley of ashes …of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (23). When immigrants in the twenties came to America in pursuit of success, they were hit with a blast of greed and lust towards material wealth which inhibits them from prospering. Between the rich world of West Egg and NewYork lie the hard workers that define what it truly means to be successful because they were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth and they did not earn money through corruption. The American ideal idolizes equality, but the traits of the value die within those who abuse its true meaning. In addition, as Nick tries to call Gatsby’s residence he says, “A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about” (161). In the Jazz Age, the rich control most of everything and as of today the rich still inhibit the American dream by controlling major corporations. Gatsby truly represents the ultimate destruction of our nation’s core values and the death of our nation’s hypocrisy. Some may say that our nation is dependent towards Americanism because without these large corporations, America would never be a major power. Regardless