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.

The American dream represents hard work and ambition.In the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald has many themes but the one that stands out most to me is the American dream.The American dream is defined by coming from a poor establishment and are striving to make the best of your life to become wealthy.In the novel Fitzgerald uses this theme that makes life seem so extravagant just to have your world crash before you with corruption. The people who are affected by corruption are Myrtle,Gatsby,and Daisy.

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.

His material world reflects Daisy. Daisy is sometimes a symbol of the American dream. “Her voice is full of money... That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible

The American Dream is fundamentally the idea that anyone in America can accomplish through hard work and can achieve success and happiness. It has been expanded on through the years and now incorporates ideas of attaining freedom, wealth and power. In the 1920s when 'The Great Gatsby' was written the Jazz Age was taking hold and the American Dream became more about material possessions being used to show a person's wealth and status and to indicate that they have been successful in life. The materialism of this period of time in America corrupted the American Dream by the intense focus on gaining wealth and power and

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).

The American Dream is defined as a person that working hard to be successful and wealthy in life. A novel called, “The Great Gatsby,” show how the American Dream is destroyed in the 1920s, where there was a time of parties, drinking, and bootlegger. Fitzgerald creating the characters from the West Egg and the East Egg, who are failing in gaining happiness. The West Egg is described as the “less fashionable,” (Fitzgerald 3) who started with nothing, a dream to be famous and the upper class. The East Egg is a city of people that come from wealthy. The Valley of Ashes is between the two cities separated by the different classes of wealth. Gatsby, Daisy, and Myrtle have been destroyed by the American Dream. The American Dream changing people for who they are.

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.

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.

Daisy is a vain lady. She marries Tom for money and status, and turns her back on true love and happiness, which is represented by Gatsby. Her American Dream is to enjoy a luxurious and comfortable life given to her by, hopefully a man who truly loves her, and whom she also loves. The corruption of her human values begins when she decides not to wait anymore for Gatsby, her real love, but to take the opportunity that Tom Buchanan offers, which are money and status. Her choices reveal her vain and superficial nature hidden beneath her beautiful and innocent look. When Gatsby returns with wealth and status in order