Great Gatsby
The American Dream promised Americans that no matter what origin born into, an individual can succeed in life on the sore basis of his or her own skill level. Written about the 1920’s, Great Gatsby tells the story from Nick Carraway’s perspective as he introduces readers to the time period of glamour, wealth, and for some, depending on the American Dream. In Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses literary devices to criticize the change in morality of the roaring twenties, which old values expressed in the American Dream are destroyed by the corrupt vulgar pursuit of wealth.
Fitzgerald uses symbols to express the distinction of social classes and status’ that destroys the American Dreams of the 1920’s generation. The symbols, East Egg, West Egg, Valley of Ashes, and water help illustrate the distinction in the roaring twenties. The East Egg is a placed where citizens who have inherited their fortune and high status, their money is referred to as “old money”, living the life and never having to work a day, this ultimately devaluing the hard work because it does not meet the glamour required to become a member of the East Egg territory. East Egg is “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered among the water”, on page ???, Nick suggest that East Egger’s values are different by saying “white palaces of fashionable” he later is proven true. The other location, just across the bay is the Western life, of a West Egger. A West Egger earns their wealth, referred to as “new money”, by hard work and determination. The region referred to as West Egg, described by Mr. Carraway, on page ???, as “…the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.” By comparing West Egg to East Egg, Nick states the easiest way to put it “the less fashionable of the two”. This quote implies that old wealth or being born rich is valued higher, which is true of this time
Fitzgerald uses symbols to express the distinction of social classes and status’ that destroys the American Dreams of the 1920’s generation. The symbols, East Egg, West Egg, Valley of Ashes, and water help illustrate the distinction in the roaring twenties. The East Egg is a placed where citizens who have inherited their fortune and high status, their money is referred to as “old money”, living the life and never having to work a day, this ultimately devaluing the hard work because it does not meet the glamour required to become a member of the East Egg territory. East Egg is “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered among the water”, on page ???, Nick suggest that East Egger’s values are different by saying “white palaces of fashionable” he later is proven true. The other location, just across the bay is the Western life, of a West Egger. A West Egger earns their wealth, referred to as “new money”, by hard work and determination. The region referred to as West Egg, described by Mr. Carraway, on page ???, as “…the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.” By comparing West Egg to East Egg, Nick states the easiest way to put it “the less fashionable of the two”. This quote implies that old wealth or being born rich is valued higher, which is true of this time