Examples Of Loss Of Faith In The Great Gatsby
The American dream was the belief that you could achieve anything through hard work and perseverance no matter where you came from. The 1920s was a time of rebellion against tradition and what seemed to be morally correct. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies a loss of faith, a confused sense of identity and place in the world, and a collapse of morality and values in order to express the aspects of the American dream. Loss of faith is the loss of belief in something. This aspect is expressed when Gatsby meets Pammy for the first time(Fitzgerald 117). He realizes that Tom and Daisy will always be connected. At the end of the novel, Nick loses faith in humanity after Gatsby’s death. He said the East was distorted forever