Lifestyle In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby: The Great Corrupt Lifestyle The Great Gatsby is written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is known for this famous novel (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2015). The novel’s setting is based on the 1920’s, also known as the jazz age or the roaring twenties. That era was known for prosperity, the evolution of jazz music, bootlegging, and other criminal activities (The Great Gatsby, 2015). The novel, The Great Gatsby, is written about a character named Jay Gatsby, who was consumed with living a lavish life and having lots of money, and his journey trying to achieve the American Dream. During this time, bootlegging, this is the transportation or selling of alcohol, was illegal (bootlegger, n.d.). Like today, in the 1920’s people were attracted to illegal activities. Jay Gatsby himself was known for bootlegging in the novel The Great Gatsby. There are a few references in the novel referring to Gatsby being a bootlegger, like the first time Tom Buchanan meets Jay Gatsby he refers to him as “bootlegger”. Gatsby was not only interested in bootlegging, but a handful of other illegal activities as well. This is made clear when Gatsby and Nick Carraway meet with Gatsby’s friend, Myer Wolfsheim, who was a gambler that fixed the World Series in 1919. Gatsby was obviously willing to go beyond appropriate measures …show more content…
He thought that if he could just keep up the image of wealth and prosperity that he would achieve whatever he wanted. Instead of having goals, Gatsby just had crooked motives. Instead of living the life of the American Dream, he took his version and ruined his life. Gatsby did not end up with the love of his life, and he had no true friends. He cared way too much of what everyone else thought of him. Gatsby tried too hard and went too far trying to achieve the American Dream he thought he wanted. To him, the exciting and seductive feeling he got from living a lie was easier than having a happy pure