Affected Dreams
Dreams. Everyone has a dream. If you achieve your life’s dream most people would call you lucky because for the vast majority of people their true dream never becomes a reality, instead the harsh realization of that fact forces them to move on and forget that they ever had a dream. These two literary works The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck both portray the underlying theme of the American Dream. These novels exemplify certain struggles that characters have endured because of wealth, excess, poverty, economic issues and various views of social status that relates to the authors perspective of the world at that particular time period. Both novels are respected works of literature that capture the dilemmas that occur during the time when they were written. The authors include their own personal experiences to make it possible for more people to relate to their story and to enhance their writing.
Biography
The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 during the “Roaring Twenties” a time of wealth, prosperity and new inventions for many Americans. Fitzgerald wrote this novel during the Lost Generation, a new era of unique …show more content…
“As the economy recovers from the Great Recession, it is leaving behind the poorest of the poor” this economic depression still affects people today (Yoo). The “Roaring Twenties”, the Great Depression and the economic crisis of 2007 all were a financial crisis caused by the collapse of the housing bubble triggered by the plummeting of housing prices. Poverty today is still closely dependent on the housing market and predictions indicate the imminent threat of a situation where history would repeat itself. Americans either choose to live in fear and the American Dream starts to die or Americans keep hope in the fundamentals of their American
Dreams. Everyone has a dream. If you achieve your life’s dream most people would call you lucky because for the vast majority of people their true dream never becomes a reality, instead the harsh realization of that fact forces them to move on and forget that they ever had a dream. These two literary works The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck both portray the underlying theme of the American Dream. These novels exemplify certain struggles that characters have endured because of wealth, excess, poverty, economic issues and various views of social status that relates to the authors perspective of the world at that particular time period. Both novels are respected works of literature that capture the dilemmas that occur during the time when they were written. The authors include their own personal experiences to make it possible for more people to relate to their story and to enhance their writing.
Biography
The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 during the “Roaring Twenties” a time of wealth, prosperity and new inventions for many Americans. Fitzgerald wrote this novel during the Lost Generation, a new era of unique …show more content…
“As the economy recovers from the Great Recession, it is leaving behind the poorest of the poor” this economic depression still affects people today (Yoo). The “Roaring Twenties”, the Great Depression and the economic crisis of 2007 all were a financial crisis caused by the collapse of the housing bubble triggered by the plummeting of housing prices. Poverty today is still closely dependent on the housing market and predictions indicate the imminent threat of a situation where history would repeat itself. Americans either choose to live in fear and the American Dream starts to die or Americans keep hope in the fundamentals of their American