During the era of the “Roaring Twenties,” Americans thought nothing could go wrong they were at the height of being wealthy. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald took place during this time era, and displays the habits of wealthy. Also, “The American Dream” is the ideal that every United States citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work and determination which is the exact opposite of what happens in the book. the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, offers a peculiar pessimistic view of “the American Dream” in three instances throughout the setting, regenerating a bad identity, relocating to discover disappointment, and infidelity urges. By way of example, a bad
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“When I came back from the East last Autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart [noted Nick]” (Fitzgerald 2). At the very beginning of the novel Carraway says that the American Dream is dead indirectly with this quote because nobody was prospering, but believing they were prospering because of their uncontrolled behavior.This quote impacted the plot because it foreshadows most of the formidable events that are soon to come by implying that the narrator, Nick, wishes for a uniformity of society in which nothing can go wrong, but it ultimately will not ever happen. In the scene where Nick is first attends one of Gatsby’s parties’, and everyone is talking about all the rumors that surrounds Gatsby(Fitzgerald 47). There are so many rumors about Mr. Gatsby that nobody could really decipher which was true and which ones were false; Nick had to decide for himself to which he thought was true, and this scene really emphasized the fact no matter how successful someone else could be there are always going to be people who criticize your work.This scene really impacted the setting in the novel because it allowed us to read what we found out about who Gatsby really was, and who he really is. “On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald it has many instances of this including: regenerating a bad identity, relocating to discover more disappointment, and infidelity urges. After the roaring twenties the United States faced a detrimental bust to the economy, known as The Great Depression. The way the book ended is the same way how many Americans felt as the stock market crashed, and realized that the american dream wasn’t really so great after
“When I came back from the East last Autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart [noted Nick]” (Fitzgerald 2). At the very beginning of the novel Carraway says that the American Dream is dead indirectly with this quote because nobody was prospering, but believing they were prospering because of their uncontrolled behavior.This quote impacted the plot because it foreshadows most of the formidable events that are soon to come by implying that the narrator, Nick, wishes for a uniformity of society in which nothing can go wrong, but it ultimately will not ever happen. In the scene where Nick is first attends one of Gatsby’s parties’, and everyone is talking about all the rumors that surrounds Gatsby(Fitzgerald 47). There are so many rumors about Mr. Gatsby that nobody could really decipher which was true and which ones were false; Nick had to decide for himself to which he thought was true, and this scene really emphasized the fact no matter how successful someone else could be there are always going to be people who criticize your work.This scene really impacted the setting in the novel because it allowed us to read what we found out about who Gatsby really was, and who he really is. “On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald it has many instances of this including: regenerating a bad identity, relocating to discover more disappointment, and infidelity urges. After the roaring twenties the United States faced a detrimental bust to the economy, known as The Great Depression. The way the book ended is the same way how many Americans felt as the stock market crashed, and realized that the american dream wasn’t really so great after