The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was based the “American Dream”. The book was about A young man by the name of Jay Gatsby. He didn't quite fit in with the people he was surrounded by. He lived in West Egg. In a huge house and threw amazing parties often. He never could achieve the american dream. Simply because he fell in love with Daisy(whom is married) , Which soon ended because Daisy would never give up her social position for a man who couldn't ever really fit into her world. Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger was also based on “The American Dream”. The book is about A teenage boy by the name of Holden Caulfield. He also had hard times fitting in with the people who was surrounded by him. Simply because he was honest and didn't deal with people in the ways expected to. He didn’t fit in because he had been enrolled in multiple schools and somehow got expelled from each school or flunked out.
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To begin they both were written during the time period where everyone wanted to reach the american dream. In The Great Gatsby written in the 1920’s, the American Dream was that all men are created equal and that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights. In the book the values have changed. Instead of equality everyone goal was to get as rich as they could, or to get their way cheating, stealing, or being manipulative.Gatsby is in his mid-thirties who lives an extravagant life which he finances with the money he has earned by “a good deal of money”(p.53). He throw huge parties to show off his wealth. Which isn't the American Dream of everyone being equal. Jay had began to get lost in the dream world, and didn't receive respect from the upper class people, and eventually was viewed as an
To begin they both were written during the time period where everyone wanted to reach the american dream. In The Great Gatsby written in the 1920’s, the American Dream was that all men are created equal and that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights. In the book the values have changed. Instead of equality everyone goal was to get as rich as they could, or to get their way cheating, stealing, or being manipulative.Gatsby is in his mid-thirties who lives an extravagant life which he finances with the money he has earned by “a good deal of money”(p.53). He throw huge parties to show off his wealth. Which isn't the American Dream of everyone being equal. Jay had began to get lost in the dream world, and didn't receive respect from the upper class people, and eventually was viewed as an