The American Dream in “The Great Gatsby”.doc

The American Dream in “The Great Gatsby” I. Introduction In 1925, The Great Gatsby was published and hailed as an artistic and material success for its young author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is considered a vastly more mature and artistically masterful treatment of Fitzgeralds themes than his earlier fiction. When I first know this book in one of American literature classes, I become interested in it. This book mainly told us as a story that the hero-Jay Gatsby fell in love with girl called Daisy in order to gain acceptance into the sophisticated, money world of the women he loves, he tried all means to get money. Fitzgerald’s dominant theme in the Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American Dream had the assumption that each person could succeed in his life if he can try all means to get money, and also if getting enough money, then he can live happily. This novel examined the results of the Jazz age generation’s adherence to false material values. In my paper, I illustrate the American Dream which revealed through the life of the main characters. Through learning this book, I firm the correct conception of wealth, especially in today’s china, the development of market economy and modernization construction misleads some people’s attitude towards money, I hope my paper can make people know further that wealth is not the name of happiness. II. American Dream and The Great Gatsby A. The connotation of the American Dream The American Dream, arose in the Colonial period and developed in the nineteenth century, had the assumption that each person could succeed in his life if he can try all means to get money, and also if getting enough money, then he can live happily. The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s. In this period, everybody had the dream to change their own life, but what a pity that all their dreams, for example, to achieve fame, success, glamour, and excitement, had been crushed by the vulgar pursuit of