How Is The American Dream Corrupt In The Great Gatsby
Selina Weng
Honors English III
Mrs. Maggert
14 April 2017
The Corruption of American Dream
American dream was rooted in the words that each person, despite their origins, is capable of succeeding in life and this was all based on their skills and efforts. Fitzgerald shows the original American dream as a set of objectives that entailed settlement, freedom, and an honest life with the likelihood of upward social and economic mobility established through hard work, as corrupted and characterized by materialism. Fitzgerald brands and portrays this era by its greed in his re-known novel of Great Gatsby. This book discredits the intended purity of America dream that anyone can achieve it through hard work and instead the author claims that the goal is unrealistic and it’s altered to achieve nothing but empty pleasure and material goods (Dube, 2017). Therefore, in the Great Gatsby novel, Francis Scott Fitzgerald seems to be criticizing the corruption of the American Dream but not the dream itself. The American dream seem to be corrupt because of the people’s greed, need for money ,and power.
The primary idea in the novel is the description of decay of the American dream as well as the greed for materialism and money. In the novel, the gap existing between the rich and the poor is described. …show more content…
In the text, we can also prove that Gatsby’s perfect house that was decorated with ornaments was built to impress a particular girl called to as Daisy. Fitzgerald uses this as a symbol of wicked ways of gaining love through wealth and money. Gatsby house has a library, and in the text, a captured conversation refers to the books as “absolutely real- having real pages and everything.” These books and many other things that Gatsby possess are just ways of showing off to
Honors English III
Mrs. Maggert
14 April 2017
The Corruption of American Dream
American dream was rooted in the words that each person, despite their origins, is capable of succeeding in life and this was all based on their skills and efforts. Fitzgerald shows the original American dream as a set of objectives that entailed settlement, freedom, and an honest life with the likelihood of upward social and economic mobility established through hard work, as corrupted and characterized by materialism. Fitzgerald brands and portrays this era by its greed in his re-known novel of Great Gatsby. This book discredits the intended purity of America dream that anyone can achieve it through hard work and instead the author claims that the goal is unrealistic and it’s altered to achieve nothing but empty pleasure and material goods (Dube, 2017). Therefore, in the Great Gatsby novel, Francis Scott Fitzgerald seems to be criticizing the corruption of the American Dream but not the dream itself. The American dream seem to be corrupt because of the people’s greed, need for money ,and power.
The primary idea in the novel is the description of decay of the American dream as well as the greed for materialism and money. In the novel, the gap existing between the rich and the poor is described. …show more content…
In the text, we can also prove that Gatsby’s perfect house that was decorated with ornaments was built to impress a particular girl called to as Daisy. Fitzgerald uses this as a symbol of wicked ways of gaining love through wealth and money. Gatsby house has a library, and in the text, a captured conversation refers to the books as “absolutely real- having real pages and everything.” These books and many other things that Gatsby possess are just ways of showing off to