In F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the American 1920’s are accurately presented on the social and economic aspects of life. Fitzgerald uses characters like Gatsby to express the ‘American Dream’ and its flaws and lies. As well as characters for expressing the high society’s corruption of that time along with their morals and lifestyle. Fitzgerald’s effective use of literary elements such as symbols, imagery, and diction amplify his abstract craftsmanship into the novel and its integrated ideas. In the section of chapter 6 pgs 117-118 Fitzgerald expresses literary craftsmanship that suggest abstract ideas such as Gatsby’s image, relationship with Daisy, and the unrealistic dream of Gatsby. This specific section focuses to the ‘glorious’ ways of Gatsby, the abstract image of him and his actions reflection upon himself that help support the title "The Great …show more content…
In spite of the fact that the symbolism gave in the above section is delightful and sentimental, with the walkway "white with moonlight" and the cool climate and "calm lights," the message Fitzgerald is trying to pass on is a discouraging point of view. The fact that the novel ends with Gatsby 's murder and the slipping relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, the realization that goes through here, with Gatsby kissing Daisy, with her lips blooming like a blossom, is by all accounts the negative connotation and expression of the American Dream in the 1920’s. Clearly, the