Changes In The Great Gatsby

The idea of the American Dream has changed over time, and F. Scott Fitzgerald expressed this considerably major change in his novel "The Great Gatsby" and other works

The Great Gatsby has a hidden underlying theme of accidentally drifting away from the original idea of the elusive American dream.

So, what message about the American Dream is explained in the book?

Scott Fitzgerald tries to express the idea that the new, more materialistic version, of the American Dream is not one that truly brings happiness among others and the person themselves. This often leads to many others trying to understand the overall meaning of the book yet overlooking the blatantly obvious underlying theme of the story

The way Fitzgerald has successfully represented

After reading Fitzgerald's novel, we cannot help ourselves left wondering how much of this dream is in truth a reality, and how much of it is a fake image." (the American Dream in the Great Gatsby by Siniša Smiljanić)

The statement itself takes control of the nature of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby, as some sort of puzzle. The American Dream and its properties change through the book and this change is showed through the characters and their actions as well as story growth and development the climb to understanding the story is not an easy one but extremely

Why does Daisy go back to Tom? Why does no one come to Gatsby's funeral? It all feels empty and pointless, the tremendous amount of effort Gatsby put into creating this life for himself, right? Well, that empty feeling is pretty much the whole point. Fitzgerald was not especially fond about the Economic boom of the 1920s, and to him, America was just like Europe in its opposition for new money, and the rich, powerful people were angry of the self-made men who were supposed to be the people living through the thinking of the country.

In fact the idea of being a self-made man was looked down upon, even though this is the type of thinking that are supposed to represent this country.

"Class Inequality and 'the gospel of wealth' - in tackling such issues F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece has never been more important and related. The 'American dream' has always been an idea of failure" stated by Sarah Churchwell in The American Dream and the Great Gatsby. The American Dream has always been set up for failure, the basic idea was material driven and when it was added to individual greed, this creates a recipe for a very twisted "dream".

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses different tools within The Great Gatsby to push his hidden underlying theme about the American