What Lies Beneath Words Throughout their entire lives, people are constantly being subjected to a variety of books and stories. One of these timeless novels, most probably read during high school, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Published in 1925, this meticulous literary work never fails to be one of the bestselling and most read novels in our present day. Roughly, “The Great Gatsby” revolves around a group of character who try to strive for their dreams in the weirdest ways. Settled in 1925 in a fictional town of New York, the story depicts the life of a man named Jay Gatsby through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway. Gatsby’s main dilemma throughout the story is to show off his “well-earned” riches and to get the girl of his dreams back, hence completing the “American Dream”. Despite the fact that some readers might regard F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” as straight-forward and blunt, since all of the events of the novels are simple and coherent to the average
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Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”? Well the theme, being universally stated, depicts the death of the American Dream. Hence the guy does not get the girl, money did not buy happiness or success, and the past did not get reproduced. Gatsby, being the typical American man, strived for success by cheating his way through life. He worked in illegal businesses and had connections with the wrong people. He finally got what he wanted only to realize that he was missing the girl of his dreams. After doing his best to make Daisy part of his life again, failure struck him and left him alone, and dead soon after. During the Industrial revolution, and during the modernism movement in literature, authors began to depict the reality of the world in their literary works. For that, Fitzgerald portrayed this reality by showing his readers that the American Dream has been murdered and that not everything ends
Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”? Well the theme, being universally stated, depicts the death of the American Dream. Hence the guy does not get the girl, money did not buy happiness or success, and the past did not get reproduced. Gatsby, being the typical American man, strived for success by cheating his way through life. He worked in illegal businesses and had connections with the wrong people. He finally got what he wanted only to realize that he was missing the girl of his dreams. After doing his best to make Daisy part of his life again, failure struck him and left him alone, and dead soon after. During the Industrial revolution, and during the modernism movement in literature, authors began to depict the reality of the world in their literary works. For that, Fitzgerald portrayed this reality by showing his readers that the American Dream has been murdered and that not everything ends