David F. Trask asserts in A Note on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that Fitzgerald critiques the outmoded “American Dream” and “agrarian myth”. Track approaches his analysis with h istorical criticism. T o support his claim, Track argues that the demise of Gatsby was primarily due to the obsolescence of Gatsby’s dream in the context of the 1920s time period. Track also concedes that the novel reveals how the agrarian “American Dream” has been dissolved through industrial and bustling restlessness rampant in the twenties. Track then evaluates that Fitzgerald’s significance as a writer in this time period stems from Fitzgerald’s emphasizing of the invalidity of living with prewar
