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Essay Archive - Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Criticism of The American Dream
Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Criticism of The American Dream
The American Dream, as it arose in the Colonial period and developed in the
nineteenth century, was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what
his origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and
effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man, just as it was
embodied in Fitzgerald's own family by his grandfather, P. F. McQuillan.
Fitzgerald's novel takes its place among other novels whose insights into the
nature of the American dream have not affected the artist....
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