The Great Gatsby, The House Of Mirth, And The Street

During the twentieth century, many people came into America as immigrants looking for freedom and a new start. America as a nation brought upon a new belief of self-invention, which was an opportunity for those who wanted to change their lives. Benjamin Franklin is a primary example of self-invention. Started, only affording three loaves of bread and had left been his own ingenuity on the streets of Boston, Benjamin became one of the most successful printers and inventors of his time period. The American Dream had an idea that you could make anything of yourself and believed that through hard work and dedication nothing could stand in the way of your success and goals. In the film “Novel Reflection on the American Dream”, the producers analyzed …show more content…
These authors have amalgamated, in their fictional novels, both the reality and dream of American through their own autobiographical experiences. Wortin and Drizer, the author of The House of Mirth and Sister Carrie, both revealed that it was not simply a person’s own determination but more about their circumstances that creates their fortune. Later on in the 1920’s, when America just came out of World War I as the most powerful nation and flourished with material prosperity, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. Like many other famous authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote from his personal experience. But contrasting many authors, he perceived a different view of wealth from the wealthy, the dark side of money. The main character, Mr. Gatsby, tried to win over his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, by obtain a higher reputation, by doing so, he becomes wealthy by selling bootlegged liquor, and later looses her because of his infamous cause of wealth. While F. Scott Fitzgerald revealed the underling problems amongst the wealthy, John Steinbeck, the author of The Grapes of Wrath, exceedingly depicts the aberration of the American Dream by writing about