the great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents us to see Jay Gatsby as a superior character, Nick Carroway one of the characters in the book, is the narrators through out, telling the story of how Jay Gatsby tries to reach his disillusioned goal. Gatsby is living the America dream where happiness is acquired...

They're a rotten crowd, I shouted across the lawn. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." Gatsby was great because he had the ability to live in the moment, not thinking far ahead in life other than his search for his beloved daisy, who he very deeply and passionately loved....

What exactly is the American Dream? Does it mean to be happy, successful, famous and wealthy? For Jay Gatsby, the rich, young businessman from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby it meant all of these things. Set in the 1920s American society, The Great Gatsby explores various aspects of lif...

Anyone and everyone can become successful with enough hard work that was the "American Dream" as it was understood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With the beginning of the twentieth century, a time of great corruption was ushered in. The modern values that came along with the ma...

Although both Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman have admirable ambitions and dreams, the ways in which they strive to achieve their goals follow principles that lack any moral compass. The young, adventurous Jay desires a lifestyle of ambiance, prestige, wealth, and status. Most importantly Jay hopes to re...