The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Analysis

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“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” The American Dream is the ideal that all men are created equal further more that life is merely the noble pursuit for greatness, money, wealth, and power for what else truly symbolizes our great nation if not this? The answer to that question of course is corruption, greed, and deception. Fitzgerald uses the characters tone and behavior to expose both sides of the american dream. Fitzgerald uses well developed characters and analogies to show that money despite what we are all brought up to believe is almost irrelevant when it comes to the true pursuit of happiness and that those of who make it our …show more content…

Gatsby himself is a symbol of the upper class or the 1% that we hear about so often within today’s politics. He has the money, the power, and the fame yet is still not happy for the one thing he wanted most was love. Even though he has more than most could even dream of acquiring he wants more; to be specific he want the not so happily married mother Daisy. This pursuit, this everlasting hunger for more, This greed is what is truly the american dream; The hunger for more for what’s new is the essential essence of America and what makes capitalism so successful within America. Gatsby pursues Daisy relentlessly …show more content…

You see Tom was born into the wealth and fame he knows nothing but it so what else is there to strive for and channel his ambition into? At one point he strived for greatness in athletics attending Yale (an ivy league school that his forefather before him no doubt attended). but once this point in his life was done he was left with only two things trophies and memories; void of any sense of fulfillment that he had hoped he would acquire. Tom becomes arrogant, he is “The Man’ and no one can tell him differently at least no one that he would listen too. Tom begins to surround himself with people who will pet his ever growing ego; a posse of “Yes Men”. At any point in time Tom could have invested himself into his family been a better husband or father, but this would not fill the other men around him with envy but rather have him perceived as weak? No Tom chooses to invest his attention elsewhere mainly into that of his mistress Myrtle and her crew of betas. Tom spends money on Myrtle showering her in gifts and money as he desperately craves the affection she gives him as it appears to be his only sense of fulfillment. Tom despite know within himself that he doesn't truly love Myrtle because nothing was ever enough. Tom lacked aim within his life and made his purpose galavanting about

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