The American Dream In The Great Gatsby
“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders,” said F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby. After the World War I, abnormal economical success dominated over Americans, and caused amorality over the society. At that time, people pursued cheap pleasure and full of entertainments: parties, extravagance, and dissipation. The Great Gatsby describes that the Jazz Age through the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, who was in the lower class, struggles with Tom Buchanan and with George Wilson to gain power for achieving his ex-lover, Daisy—who is the reason that he yearns for power and symbolizes the American Dream: Equality. Fitzgerald criticized such
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However, the root of his conflicts is the affair with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby has earned the money to become the rich man who can stand beside Daisy without being impoverished, and has held a lot of parties in his house just to meet Daisy. Finally, Gatsby and Daisy have an affair; and Tom checks the infedility of them, and exposes that Gatsby is a bootlegger which is banned in U.S in twenties —“‘I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were.’ He turned to us and spoke rapidly. ‘He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong” (143). To refute his argument Gatsby asks Daisy to say that she loves Gatsby, not Tom, but Daisy says it awkwardly since she is the woman who relys on men much. Then Gatsby recognizes that Daisy does not love him as much as he does. After that, there was the last struggle which provides the motive to George Wilson who is the husband of Tom Buchanan’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson, kills Gatsby. When Gatsby and Daisy drive after Tom’s exposure, Daisy hits Myrtle accidentally. Yet Tom thinks that it is Gatsby who hits his mistress, he says to George that the criminal is Gatsby and gives him a gun. Gatsby who is depressed recognizing Daisy’s mind killed by
However, the root of his conflicts is the affair with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby has earned the money to become the rich man who can stand beside Daisy without being impoverished, and has held a lot of parties in his house just to meet Daisy. Finally, Gatsby and Daisy have an affair; and Tom checks the infedility of them, and exposes that Gatsby is a bootlegger which is banned in U.S in twenties —“‘I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were.’ He turned to us and spoke rapidly. ‘He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong” (143). To refute his argument Gatsby asks Daisy to say that she loves Gatsby, not Tom, but Daisy says it awkwardly since she is the woman who relys on men much. Then Gatsby recognizes that Daisy does not love him as much as he does. After that, there was the last struggle which provides the motive to George Wilson who is the husband of Tom Buchanan’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson, kills Gatsby. When Gatsby and Daisy drive after Tom’s exposure, Daisy hits Myrtle accidentally. Yet Tom thinks that it is Gatsby who hits his mistress, he says to George that the criminal is Gatsby and gives him a gun. Gatsby who is depressed recognizing Daisy’s mind killed by