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The Great Gatsby and the tainted American Dream
Title: The Great Gatsby and the tainted American Dream
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2750 | Pages: 11.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Great Gatsby and the tainted American Dream
Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase, “American Dream” during the early infancy of our country, proposing this dream as, “That pursuit of a better existence … [and] a higher quality of life through hard work, determination, and devotion.” While this may be what many of the characters in The Great Gatsby believe (Jay Gatsby in particular), one critical ideal is discarded in Fitzgerald’s twisted refinement of Franklin’s definition: morality. It is apparent that Jay Gatsby …showed first 75 words of 2750 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2750 total…you will end up miserable, possibly for the rest of your life. Lastly, there is no doubt that this novel’s message about the decay of the American dream is solely focused on an audience facing some of the most vastly changing times in our civilization’s history and a warning that just like Jay Gatsby found out, there is no way to reclaim the past, that American dream, Franklin’s American dream is gone.
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