Cynicism In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby Final Essay
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald cynicism about the American Dream in the 1920’s is represented by the character Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, and Daisy Buchanan. The people who were born with wealth are careless, awful people, and the people who attain it or seek to attain it end up destroyed. FItzgerald believes that the American Dream in the 1920’s is ruined by the unworthiness of money and pleasure, these changes affected his belief about the American Dreambecause when people in the book pursuit a better life, they end up getting hurt or hurting others. Fitzgerald’s attitude was represented because Gatsby was poor and he went into the criminal organization industry to come up in social ladder just so he live his dream of marrying Daisy and he ends up getting killed.
The first character whose experiences in the novel reflect the author’s attitude is Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby grew up poor and impoverished. Always wanted to be wealthy, he achieved this goal by participating in organized crime. Gatsby had so much devoted love for Daisy that Jay bought a mansion right across the bay from her. Jay through big and unattainable parties to get Daisy attention. Gatsby’s love fantasy with Daisy had shattered. With that happening, it shows that the corruption …show more content…

Daisy, in the past, was a popular military officer back home where she from. Back home Daisy met Gatsby, Gatsby lied to Daisy to try and convince her that he was worth enough for her. Daisy and Gatsby made love, Daisy told Gatsby that she would wait for him to get out the war. Then 2 years later she ends up marrying Tom Buchanan (hence Daisy’s last name). Daisy, in the novel, is the image of Zelda Fitzgerald, she is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. In the Fitzgerald conception of the American Dream, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocrat of East

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