Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
The novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald is written in the
United States in a period of great optimism and economic growth. The book
clearly reflects this tendency and depictures the prosperity present in the
American socity in the ninteen-twenties. However, The Great Gatsby also
presents a quite pessimistic view of the coming years, of the dangers of
this development, as well as a critisism of one of the most common ideals-
the American dream. The tragic story of the life of Jay Gatsby who se....
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