The Dream is Dead
What does the American Dream mean to you ? To F. Scott Fitzgerald the author of The Great Gatsby , the American dream has been corrupted. The dream has been transformed from security and happiness into a state of materialistic power and immorality. Fitzgerald's tragic story of a young dreamer, is modeled after the way the American dream is now lost forever to the American people. As David Trask asserts in his essay "the American dream consists of the belief sometimes thought as a promise that people of talent in this land of opportunity and plenty could reasonably aspire to material success if they adhered to a fairly well defined set of behavioral rules" (Trask es
Tom and Daisy represented a class of heartless citizens who have reached success at the expense of dehumanization. Gatsby's long life dream was to relive the love he had once shared with Daisy Buchanan. This journal and Gatsby's everlasting quest for self-improvement is an example of the American Dream. When George Wilson commits suicide, the hope of the true hard working man making it in the new corrupt world drift away with his soul. With the story of Gatsby's tragic idealistic love, Fitzgerald simultaneously shows the end of American values. When Gatsby dies any hope of the modern American dream has of surviving in the new corrupt, money hungry world dies with him. Gatsby's use of illegal practices and underground connections to gain his fortune are allsigns of an unknowingly corrupted American Dream. Nick thinks to himself "I don't think he has really believed in it's (Daisy's daughter) existence before" (Fitzgerald 123). Daisy in reality has become a person whose only passion in life is money and keeping her upper class status. Daisy refers to her daughter as an "absolute dream" crushing any hopes any hopes of Gatsby recreating the past. When Daisy introduces her daughter to Gatsby, nick notices an obvious attitude change. The American dream has been forever forgotten by human greed and the love for money. Gatsby partners up with a man named Meyer Wolfshien to sell illegal bonds and alcohol (bootlegging). This determination is documented in his "Hopalong Cassidy" journal. say) Ever since Jay Gatsby was young he was determined to work hard and reach his dreams.
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