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The American dream in The Great Gatsby

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Artikel, 2013

The paper explores the corrupted idea of the American Dream in one of the greatest novels written on the topic, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Even though the pursuance of the American Dream stems from the idea of hard work and success that is pure, truthful, and just, Jay Gatsby's approach in achieving it leads to his demise. His relationships with other characters, particularly Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan, were tainted because of the morally corrupted notion of the American Dream. This paper textually analyzes The Great Gatsby and explores that how Gatsby runs after a dream (Daisy) that he cannot achieve even after becoming financially wealthy, and how the corrupt ideals of the American Dream become the reason that he cannot fulfill his own dreams.

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This paper attempts to read Fitzgerald's epoch-making novel The Great Gatsby as a cultural discourse of super-charged times. The post First World War was a time of great social, economic, and cultural upheaval across the globe. The U.S. was not left untouched. This novel is a living and throbbing document of its time. Gatsby's rise and fall is only the upper turf of the story. The factors leading to his becoming what he became and the later course of events that ultimately destroy him make up for the subterranean part of the story. This paper tries to look into the economic aspect of the story alongside the emotional and social aspects as well.

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust are works that were written during the period of the Great Depression, a time of hardship when the American dream lost its value as people lost their belief in equality, prosperity and success. There are many different views of the American dream, and each of the three selected writers incorporate the effects of the Great Depression in their works in order to present a focus on a particular aspect of the American dream. In The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald highlights the false hopes of the idealized dream of getting rich which leads to disillusionment and failure. In a similar manner, Lorraine Hansberry, in A Raisin in the Sun, depicts the broken dream and harsh reality of living as an African-American in Chicago during the period between the 1920s and the 1930s. Likewise, in The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West shows the complete failure of the ...

Greenfield, Fitzgerald and Allen have critiqued what is essentially the hollow and morally barren nature that is at the heart of the pursuit of the American dream which is to grow in wealth and accumulate property and possessions in a consumer society. At heart their critique is the morally bankrupt nature of material pursuits and the morally empty characters who inhabit the sphere of great wealth. It is apt then that T S Eliot had written to Fitzgerald that his novel was the first advance in the American novel since Henry James, because the idea of a spiritual wasteland very much informs Fitzgerald’s critique of capitalist society and the empty nature of the American dream of attaining and amassing wealth. To this end the critique holds of modern capitalist society and the hollow, meretricious ideals that underpin much of it. Fuelled by cheap money and greed thus, the Siegel’s fall symbolizes the corruptibility of the American dream and its turn to wealth as a religion and false id...

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