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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgeralds novel, The Great Gatsby. ... The novel illustrates the society in the 1920s and the associated beliefs, values and dreams of the American population of the time. It is through the narrators dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dreams pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power, and further, how the world of high society lacks any sense of morals or consequence. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... While Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author’s other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy.
Myrtle Wilson’s desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... 37)
She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. ... 25) She dreams of a better life, of rising up the class scale. ... 118)
While everyone else is moving in, George is the only character in the whole book who dreams about moving out, which makes him a contrast between lifestyle and morality. ... Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. ... The moral decadence and carelessness of the American dream can be seen in Daisy in the situation of the murder of Myrtle and her abandonment of Gatsby just before and after his death.
Approximate Word count = 1298
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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