The Great Gatsby

In Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby tries to make the all mighty American Dream. Gatsby’s dream is to work hard to get rich in order to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, his long lost love. This dream to win Daisy’s love with elaborate material possessions, eventually lead to his death. These intentions and the failures that come show the corrupted American Dream Gatsby tries to create. Another example of …showed first 75 words of 732 total…

…showed last 75 words of 732 total…one of Gatsby’s most elaborate material possessions, the marble pool, in which Gatsby’s death was brought about by a vengeful act of Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson. This downfall is comparable to the noble intentions and resulting failures of the American Dream, in which class and greed usually overtake the success of becoming rich. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed Jay Gatsby’s dream as a resemblance to the American Dream in The Great Gatsby.