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