What Is The Corruption Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, written in the 1920s, is a book symbolizing the corruption of the American Dream. The American Dream was a dream of immigrants coming to the americas in pursuit of a better life. Immigrants thought that living in the land of the free would be a lot better than it turned out to be and most of them ended up working in conditions worse than from which they came. The 1920s was nicknamed the Gilded Age because from the outside, life looked glamorous and expensive, but that isn't the way it actually was. Beneath the gold exterior of the American Dream was a harsh way of living: people were extremely poor, they had physically demanding jobs with long work hours, and there was nothing they could do to change it. The glamorous life
Jay started out with no money, but made a fortune selling alcohol. He got to live the glamorous life with a ginormous party every weekend, the latest style of car, the top clothes, and he got to live in a huge mansion. Although Gatsby had everything he needed, he did not have Daisy. Daisy was Gatsby's dream and to win her would mean that he achieved the unachievable, but it didn't work out that way. Jay Gatsby tried to charm Daisy with all of his fancy things, but in the end she could not be with him. Gatsby lost everything he had, and Fitsgerald made this his main concept because the American Dream really is unachievable. In conclusion, Fitsgerald used The Great Gatsby as a satire book against the Amercican Dream. Fitsgerald related to Gatsby very well and went through some of the same challenges he did, so he wanted to show the world how corrupt everyone’s dream was. The Valley of Ashes, Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby were very good examples of the path to achieve the unachievable. There is no such thing as a perfect life so there will always be something people dream about, and the American Dream concept will never fully be