Corruption In The Great Gatsby

The American Dream is one of the most prominent themes present in the novel, The Great Gatsby. Each unique character envisions their own version of the american dream. One of the main characters of the novel is Daisy Buchanan. She is the wife of Tom Buchanan and lives in an extravagant mansion in the East Egg. She possessed many aspects of the stereotypical American Dream: wealth, dignity, and popularity. However, similar to many characters, she desired more and more. The American Dream reflects the corruption Gatsby conveys about the American Dream, since all of the wealth and prosperity Daisy desired didn’t come through hard work but was inherited through the marriage of Tom Buchanan. Daisy didn't marry Jay Gatsby because Tom Buchanan could provide Daisy her deepest desires: living a comfortable life, having a perfect child in a happy home, and being the epitome of beauty and perfection.

However, because of Gatsby's past, Daisy can't be apart of his dream and evidently stays with old money Tom. Daisy represents the peak of Gatsbys American dream. Fitzgerald is criticising the American dream, he doesn't believe one can truly have everything and be happy in America. At the same time, Gatsby doesn't only not have Daisy, but he doesn't have righteous money. All of Gatsby's wealth comes from crime.

Myrtle is chasing her American dream by having an affair with Tom Buchanan.Tom is a very wealthy man who is married to Daisy.Myrtle is unhappy with her husband George who is not a very wealthy man.Her image of living the dream was to go with Tom.She felt that her life would be complete and live the life that she was meant to

The Great Gatsby The all around known famous novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells both a great story about how money can make one corrupt, and about love. Ever since the beginning, Gatsby has fallen deeply in love with Daisy. While gone to war, Gatsby missed out on years of her life and she moved on to another man, Tom Buchanan.

This written task is inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald depicts the 1920s as an era of rotted social and moral values: greed, superficiality, corruption, and the never-ending quest for pleasure, through the love of Gatsby for Daisy. The reckless elation of Gatsby’s actions to gain Daisy back is evidenced by his illegally pursued wealth, lavish parties, opulent mansion, and myriads of domestic staff. The failure of the American dream is epitomized by this obsessive need of achieving a “dream” by surpassing more noble intents.

The 1920s otherwise known as the Gangster Era had a rising number in crimes; the law enforcements did not work to their full potentials which led to four out of every five criminals going unpunished by the law (Alder 36). Big cities such as New York and Chicago had gang uprises due to ethnic tension and prohibition rebellion. Groups such as the Klu Klux Klan became popular throughout the country, spreading their extremely racist views to many. The prohibition gave many gangs an opportunity to start illegal businesses such as selling alcohol. Many of these gangs and dangerous people were not punished due to their extreme wealth.

The Great Gatsby portrays a symbol of the American Dream’s corruption. It’s no longer a vision of building a life; it’s just about getting rich. “He smiled understandingly- much more than understandingly…it faced- or seemed to face the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice

In The Great Gatsby, the dreams of the major characters represents how the American Dream can corrupt a person's morals. Nevertheless, Jay Gatsby’s life symbolizes the American Dream in the most passionate way. Gatsby spends most of his life chasing after his version of the American Dream, but he never able to reach it. By end of the novel, even the narrator is forced to acknowledge that ¨it [the American Dream] eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning ——¨ (Fitzgerald, 180).

Daisy’s American Dream is to have happiness. She did a terrible mistake, married the wrong man because he was rich but unfaithful and abusive. At the beginning of the novel, Daisy finds out that her husband, Tom is having an affair with another woman. Jordan says, “She might have the decency not to telephone him a dinner time. Don’t you think?” (Fitzgerald 10) Jordan tells Nick that Tom got some women in New York. Daisy and Tom's relationship is an unhappy marriage. Tom seems to be rude towards her and doesn’t seem to care about her either. Daisy thinks that choosing him would change her life in a good way, hoping for love and happiness which describe her American Dream. She discovers that she has nothing because she thought that she will have all she desired for if she married Tom. She has a daughter who is three years old. Daisy doesn’t care about her, nor seem to be important in her life. When her child was born, Daisy said “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool.” (Fitzgerald, 11) The way Daisy speaks about her daughter, show that she doesn’t want her daughter to be smart instead to be a fool or she’ll suffer like her. Daisy is not a fool, but she acts like one. She believes that her daughter has to be a beautiful fool in order to be happy and successful. Throughout

Great Gatsby theme is great Gatsby would be corruption, the American dream, love, deception, wealth or anything that makes a good drama basically. The American dream is considered a perfect life for everybody, makes money there's lots of love,food, plenty of food to, cars fancy cars, and whatever your heart desires everyone has a different view of the AmerIcan dream however. The American dream of love and the great Gatsby there's a special someone for everyone. Every man has a woman and every woman has a man they go through life searching for that special someone sometimes destroying their own lives.

Gatsby is led to this life of opulence because he is trying to impress Daisy Buchanan, the love of his life. This love affair serves as the force behind Gatsby's downfall. Once Jay Gatsby becomes obsessed with living a lavish life for his lady his life begins to unravel. By choosing Daisy "who has a voice of money" as the love of Gatsby, Fitzgerald is able to add depth to Mr. Gatsby's greed and desires(Fitzgerald, 126). The author also depicts the frailty of the American dream by showing that in Gatsby's case, not only did he dream of being someone else, he lost himself in order to make up a past that is more acceptable than be raised in the Midwest by a poor

Daisy leads herself to believe she has achieved the American Dream because she is married and wealthy with a large house and a daughter. Like many women in the 1920’s she marries for money even if she believes it was for love at first. She does as she wishes for her daughter because “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (17). She says this because women were limited in what they could do and it was easier to ignore the issues in her life, such as Tom’s affair. She doesn’t acknowledge this until Jay Gatsby came back into her

Critically acclaimed author, Azar Nafisi once said, “The negative side of the American dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.” Within The Great Gatsby, which is set in the midst of the roaring 20s, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s apparent plot is the rekindling between hopeless lovers but in actuality it converses the inevitability of the American dream downfall. The novel is narrated by Nick Carraway who speaks in absolute awe of Jay Gatsby, originally James Gatz, who is a man who lives a life of luxury from not only new but dirty money. The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic text, in particular of the true hollowness of the American dream in an era of materialism and corruption which ultimately leads to shattered hopes and dreams.

“The story of a self-made man whose dreams of love and social acceptance lead to scandal and corruption”(Stephen). Jay Gatsby tries to attain a version of the American Dream. As he works toward his dream, Gatsby chases Daisy’s love and fulfills his lust for wealth. While doing this he harms others around himself because he is so absorbed in this dream. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s obsession with the American Dream, wealth and his desire for Daisy, causes many problems.

We get to know Gatsby aside from all the parties and the wealth, through this we found out that he was poor as a child. He completely changed due to one person. He wanted someone else in his picture of accomplishing the American Dream and that person was Daisy. Now Fitzgerald’s idea of the American Dream was the idea that should involve someone working to be happy, wealthy, and loved. In this case it was Gatsby in love with Daisy.