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The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is recognized in American Literature as one of his greatest achievements. Many of Fitzgerald’s works research the Jazz-Age for the single American dream of happiness and wealth (Poupard, Person 146). “Critics concur that The Great Gatsby rises above being a mere chronicle of a past American era, and most believe that the novel’s continued popularity demonstrates modern America’s fascination with the American dream” (Poupard, Person 147). In this book Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to compare the real American dreamer with what has become of the American society in the 1920’s. During the 1920’s America was unable to fulfill dreams and expose the blindness in Jazz-Age Americans. “The Great Gatsby is an exploration of the American dream as it exists in a corrupt period, and it is an attempt to determine the concealed boundary that divides the reality from the illusions” (Bewley 38). Jay Gatsby is a builder as well as a dreamer, and Gatsby puts his all into figuring out his “ethical dream” (Minter 82).
The Great Gatsby was written in a poor society with no moral virtues. Dreamers in a healthy society are respected and encouraged. However, in t
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Years of partying, and destroying dreams and dreamers, of driving recklessly onward without direction or responsibility had destroyed the neatly woven fabric of America. “His own dream of wealth meant nothing in itself; he merely wanted to buy back the happiness he had lost – Daisy, now the rich man’s wife – when he had gone away to war” (Kazin 151). He sacrifices his life for the “love of his life”, Daisy. Gatz is an extremely wealthy man living in a large residence in West Egg, New York. “Gatsby, unlike the other Fitzgerald heroes, sacrifices his life on the alter of his dream, unaware that it is composed of the ephemeral stuff of the past”(Miller 20). Gatsby does not fulfill his hopes and dreams in his lifetime.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc. Gatz tries to fit into this world by purchasing expensive cars; high fashion garments, and furnishes his house with costly objects. Gatsby also worked for a millionaire named Dan Cody. Gatsby believes that he has a destiny with Daisy.
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