The Great Gatsby American Dream Essay

The Struggles to Achieve The American Dream The American Dream is a theme In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The American Dream is to be wealthy, to be popular, and to have the girl of your dreams. Jay Gatsby failed to achieved this dream. Gatsby took shortcuts to get what he wanted, but in the end it didn't turn out the way he wanted. Jay Gatsby takes shortcuts to be successful by bootlegging and working with Wolfsheim to get things illegally. People who don't take short…

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” (Fitzgerald 85). everybody dreams of someday being the pursued and achieving the so called “American dream” but is it really as amazing as people make it sound or was it just a piece of propaganda that America used to attract new immigrants to this great country a hundred years ago. The exact definition of the american dream is the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children,…

The Great Gatsby is a slender beast of a novel. Written By Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in April 1925. The novel is a virtuoso display of personality, Eloquently phrased and exquisitely plotted. The descriptions are jarringly beautiful. The novel is magnificently complex and rich. The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a naive man and a careless woman however the main theme of the novel are much more complex and are of slightly less romantic scope. .This is a beautiful story…

thought or a dream for people to start a new life in a strange land. The dream states that all men are created equal, man can trust and should trust his fellow man, and the good, virtuous, and hardworking are rewarded. However, through the years the American dream has become corrupt and evolved over time. Typically a person aspires to be better than his or her parents while accumulating things such as love, wealth, high status, and power on his or her way to the top. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott…

HE GREAT GATSBY, AN ANALYSIS ON THE SYMBOLISM IN COLOR Rough copy Nick Carraway’s first glimpse of Jay Gatsby is of him seeming to reach out across the way towards a mysterious green light. The moment invites the reader to look for symbolic meaning. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is very rich in symbols particularly in the use of different colors. Throughout the novel different colors are used symbolically to help reinforce certain ideas, both real and illusory, whether it be Gatsby’s…

Written Task 2 Rationale: The Great Gatsby “If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience how and why might it differ?” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells a story about the American Dream and social class dynamics in the 1920’s in New York. Fitzgerald takes careful notes on each of the social classes and what the American Dream means to the people within the social groups. The main social groups in The Great Gatsby include: old…

struggle in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book about the romantic relationship between successful businessman Jay Gatsby, and former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The book is commonly used to reflect the American dream. The American dream is a set of ideals about the life of people in the United States. It is about a land in which every person, with the enough hard work, will reach success. Jay Gatsby is always idolized as the reflection of the American dream. Each…

high school, but the references are as old as human history. The Great Gatsby demonstrates the effects of this stereotyping through the emergence of 1920’s commercialism and demonstrates the effects it has on society and the American dream. The history of the American dream leads many to question its attainability. The American dream was created as…

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…

Corruption of the American Dream The American dream is defined differently by everyone. Some might say that the dream is to have whatever you want and others say it is to get a job that you enjoy and have a place to live. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how greed corrupted the idea of the American dream in the 1920´s. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows this idea by using characters, especially Gatsby, when he throws numerous parties to show off what he has. Also, how people use Gatsby’s money to…