The Great Gatsby Lost Generation Analysis

Introduction The Great Gatsby came out in last century, the golden age of American novels. F•Scott Fitzgerald, who was regarded as the representative wrtiter of “The Lost Generation” , shows the love on the cash cow through writing the ups and downs of the plot to readers. In The Great Gatsby, the real situation of American society in the 1920 s can be seen. In addition, the void and noisy that hide behind pomp, the plight of ”The Lost Generation” are also showed greatly in the book. This article focus on money and love in The Great Gatsby through analysising characteristics of personality and the view of money,value of some representative characters in the novel, and then reveal to the reason that creat this romantic tragedy story.

1. Pursue love by money --- Love promote the generation of money desire In The Great Gatsby,pure and beautiful love seems to endowed with money, this strong armed forces. Under the impetus of the pursuit of love,Gatsby constructs a romantic dream based on the money. Just …show more content…
It seems that dreams are real under that background of the era.Actually, they have to end in the expansion of the desire of money. No matter how wonderful the dream is, it is still a dream. However, All characters in the novel have dreams, even Nick. At first, he also was full of fantasy when he arrived in New York. And he was curious about the villa next to him. After receiving the invitation letter, he was happy to attend the party. In fact, he is interested in the rich life, shows that he also want to enter this kind of rich class at that time. And what Gatsby has, is his dream. Untill Gatsby died, this dream is disillusioned. And then he realizes that there are more precious thing than money in life and humanity. He flees this nonhuman world, become the guardian of the traditional