Symbolism Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby A person that pursues the American Dream often has the goal of being the wealthiest and, the most popular person around. This picture is also painted in F. S. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, with Jay Gatsby being the “rich and the famous”. Mr. Fitzgerald communicates through this novel his own version of the American Dream with the symbolism indicated in the story. This novel takes place in the 1920’s during the Jazz Age, where drinking and living on the “line” is seen as being successful and dominate over those who around you. In this novel symbolism is used throughout the story to give the reader ideas and hints of what the American Dream really was and still is. Gatsby is the complete idea of this illustration; he is the symbol of the American Dream, being the
This truth is withheld through the novel while giving us hints towards his past. This is symbolic due to the suspense it lays on the readers, and the involuntary dreams he seems to pursue. Jay is used a lot as the main point of the American dream to many people in the 1920’s and to others in the present. The American Dream in the society of the Jazz Age was to be wealthy, find a wife or husband of the same class, have children, and throw the biggest parties while being the most popular person n around. This is shown through other characters as well, but most significantly through Jay. The pursuit of happiness is modernly the common dream for American’s today, which supports Fitzgerald’s opinion to the dream of Americans back then. Gatsby is the ideal character to show the realism of what Fitzgerald thought in his life. Jay is the spitting image of the dreams and characteristics of everyday Americans, as well as Fitzgerald himself. It is believed that Fitzgerald shows how the American Dream is not right and is not what should be pursued, by using his own life experiences and anger to write this