The American Dream
Jay Gatsby tenaciously chases the American Dream in hopes of possessing millions but ultimately loses everything. The Great Gatsby is an American novel about a poor boy from the midwest who moves to New York and takes on the persona of a millionaire and begins to strive at bootlegging in the time of prohibition. He befriends his neighbor Nick Carraway and learns his cousin Daisy is Gatsby’s long lost love so he throws these extravagant lavish parties in an attempt to win her over from her husband but then comes to his unfortunate demise. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies the pursuit of the American Dream and it highlights the reckless behavior of the 1920’s and the concept of the tragic hero. …show more content…
In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is determined to succeed in any form possible even illegally. In this scene Gatsby is with Daisy and there is a brutal storm outside with flashes of lightning and booms of thunder. Gatsby realizes that things are really starting to change, “It was an hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air” (95). This ideology is earned through hard work though, it cannot be cheated. In relation to the novel American Psycho, the Great Gatsby highlights the dirty side of the American Dream, “Both novels symbolize the disintegration of the American Dream and portray eras of decay social and moral values”. This successful lifestyle is found through persistence and hard work but in Gatsby’s case he took the easy way out and smuggled liquor to people in the period of prohibition showing that humans are naturally lazy and greedy so if they make a lot of money with doing no work, they would do it immediately. The importance of the American dream is based solely on the reckless behavior of Americans in the …show more content…
After a magnificent party at Gatsby’s, everyone is clearly drunk but they still think they are capable of driving home. In the 20’s drinking and driving was not as big of a problem as it is now, ““ Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe which had left Gatsby’s drive not two minutes before” (53). Fitzgerald uses his literary talent to communicate some of the biggest issues of society in these times. “‘The Great Gatsby’ provides something more substantial than an evening’s entertainment”. In this time in history everyone was using credit to get everything they wanted and often purchased alcohol even though it was illegal showing that this whole decade was one big party. Additionally, corruption and the party lifestyle reigned over the American public like a storm cloud. The good times would not last for Gatsby as he would soon meet his
Jay Gatsby tenaciously chases the American Dream in hopes of possessing millions but ultimately loses everything. The Great Gatsby is an American novel about a poor boy from the midwest who moves to New York and takes on the persona of a millionaire and begins to strive at bootlegging in the time of prohibition. He befriends his neighbor Nick Carraway and learns his cousin Daisy is Gatsby’s long lost love so he throws these extravagant lavish parties in an attempt to win her over from her husband but then comes to his unfortunate demise. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies the pursuit of the American Dream and it highlights the reckless behavior of the 1920’s and the concept of the tragic hero. …show more content…
In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is determined to succeed in any form possible even illegally. In this scene Gatsby is with Daisy and there is a brutal storm outside with flashes of lightning and booms of thunder. Gatsby realizes that things are really starting to change, “It was an hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air” (95). This ideology is earned through hard work though, it cannot be cheated. In relation to the novel American Psycho, the Great Gatsby highlights the dirty side of the American Dream, “Both novels symbolize the disintegration of the American Dream and portray eras of decay social and moral values”. This successful lifestyle is found through persistence and hard work but in Gatsby’s case he took the easy way out and smuggled liquor to people in the period of prohibition showing that humans are naturally lazy and greedy so if they make a lot of money with doing no work, they would do it immediately. The importance of the American dream is based solely on the reckless behavior of Americans in the …show more content…
After a magnificent party at Gatsby’s, everyone is clearly drunk but they still think they are capable of driving home. In the 20’s drinking and driving was not as big of a problem as it is now, ““ Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe which had left Gatsby’s drive not two minutes before” (53). Fitzgerald uses his literary talent to communicate some of the biggest issues of society in these times. “‘The Great Gatsby’ provides something more substantial than an evening’s entertainment”. In this time in history everyone was using credit to get everything they wanted and often purchased alcohol even though it was illegal showing that this whole decade was one big party. Additionally, corruption and the party lifestyle reigned over the American public like a storm cloud. The good times would not last for Gatsby as he would soon meet his