The Delusion of The American Dream in The Great Gatsby, a Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The American Avant-Garde poet Gertrude Stein once commented that “You are all a lost generation!” in reference to post-World War One society. Immortalized in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the phrase has come to symbolize a unique generation in America that came of age in the 1920s. After the [...]

From the moment America was founded, people have flocked to the country in search of reaching the American Dream, the opportunity for all citizens to be successful regardless of social class. F. Scott Fitzgerald brings the validity of the American Dream into question in his novel The Great Gatsby, [...]

The American ethos is people can create their own lives and attain happiness. America, the new world, represents a person’s opportunity to recreate one’s self and deny past ties. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his novel, The Great Gatsby, to explore how the American dream is itself a measure of [...]

By definition, a tragedy is a serious play in which the characters, through the actions of the main character, endure misfortunes that lead to a final, devastative catastrophe, which usually includes the death of the main character, who is the tragic protagonist. According to the Greek philosopher [...]

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby relates to today's society with corruption and unhappiness that money brings. The novel shows how people's morals back then and today are basically the same. If Gatsby has money and all the rich nice things, like his house and his cars in life then people [...]

F. Scott Fitzgerald is more strongly associated with the 1920’s than any other writer. He is generally considered the voice of his generation, but his insight into human behavior means that he is never out of print, for his flawed heroes and heroines speak to all of us.Perhaps no one is more fully [...]

On the surface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”, the book appears to be a celebration of the American Dream however upon further inspection it is evident that the novel holds deep criticisms towards the concept of the American Dream during the 1920’s, also known as the “Roaring [...]

"When Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1515, he started a literary genre with lasting appeal for writers who wanted not only to satirize existing evils but to postulate the state, a kind of Golden Age in the face of reality" (Hewitt 127). Unlike a Utopian novel in which the writer intends to portray [...]

Are Winston, Julia and Offred eventually made into ‘reluctantly-selfish’ victims of totalitarian regimes or are they innately ‘pragmatically-selfish’ beings? Discuss in relation to The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. Offred and Winston, the main protagonists of the two strikingly similar dystopian [...]