The Great Gatsby

The American Dream In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby’s dreams to show how money, status, and ideals influenced the downfall of the American dream. The American dream was what everyone in the 1920’s was striving for, but many often fell short of it. F. Scot Fitzgerald helps to reassess the American dream by showing Jay Gatsby’s failure at obtaining it. In the 1920’s most people dreamed of having money, …showed first 75 words of 796 total…

…showed last 75 words of 796 total…damage his ideal image of Daisy. Fitzgerald shows that the American dream is all about ideals and what one wants to see, which is often not reality. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to show the shallowness and greediness that most people face in trying to reach the American dream. The American dream led to Gatsby’s tragic death, because he wasn’t living reality. The American dream isn’t real, it’s an illusion.