Disillusion of Great Gatsby
Disillusionment of Gatsby’s” American Dream" in The Great Gatsby The disillusionment of the American Dream is a frequent but important written theme in the American literature. Fitzgerald’s famous book The Great Gatsby is one of the most important representative works that reflects this theme. F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America's Jazz Age during the 1920s. His classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby examines and critiques Gatsby's particular vision of the 1920's American Dream. The Great Gatsby can be seen as a far-reaching book that has revealed many serious and hidden social problems at that time. As one of the most popular and financially successful American novelists at that time, Fitzgerald gains his fame of the ‘simultaneous lyricist and demystifier of the American dream’. Gatsby, the tragic hero of this great book, uses all his lifetime to pursue wealth, wishing to use money to buy his “love dream” back. However, in the end, his “love dream” has been merciless crashed by that cruel society and the selfish and malicious people. Through this book, Fitzgerald uses his own language to reveal the darkness and vanity of American society, to illustrate the cruel and selfish nature of the American people, and to show the disillusionment of American Dream at that time. This paper is designed to analyze and reveal the true nature and Gatsby’s disillusionment of the American Dream, through the thorough and careful analysis of the novel The Great Gatsby. As we all know, since 1920s, the essence of the traditional American Dream has been thoroughly changed in the USA, as society and economics develop quickly. During the World War I, America is the only country in western world that does not involve in this devastated war. And because of this war, America immediately becomes wealthy and prosperous for selling arms to the involved countries. After the World War I, America has entered