Examples Of Naturalism In The Great Gatsby

The idea of American Dream as presented by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Great Gatsby novel involves rising from poverty or rags to richness and wealthy. The American Dream exemplifies that elements such as race, gender, and ethnicity are valueless as they do not influence the ability of an individual to rise to power and richness. This American Dream makes the assumption that concepts such as xenophobia are non-existent in America a concept that is not true and shows vagueness of the American Dream. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the Great Gatsby to demonstrate the overall idea of living the American dream. Gatsby leaves his small village of farmers and manages to work his way up the ladder although some of the money he uses to climb the ladder is associated with crime “He was a son of God and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 6.7). This phrase shows that Gatsby wasn’t meant for a life similar to that of his father but rather destined for greatness. However, his dream his short-lived and he doesn’t make it to the top as Daisy who is a symbol of his wealthy rejects her and a series of events transpire that result in his death before he could live his American Dream alongside everyone else who was working up the ladder to live the American Dream.

Gatsby becomes a gangster and lives an empty life by himself with parties to impress everyone and for him to not relive his fear. Gatsby’s suffering of an entire lifetime is just to win Daisy, which shows that an American is able to suffer lifetime of hardships and having the American Dream. Through the actions of Gatsby and Green, about the infinite things that an American will do in pursuit of the American Dream. Fitzgerald tries to explain to his readers how there are some consequences along the road to the American Dream. For instance, Gatsby lives and builds his whole life in pursuit of Daisy. He tries his whole life to heal and renew the past in hopes that one day he will be good enough for Daisy and be able to have her. In pursuit in the American Dream there’s always going to be obstacles and challenges in your way of getting to it, between James and Gatsby is an example of how people can transform themselves according to their motivation for wealth. The use of illegal activities to gain Gatsby's wealth is to point out or hint in the book, this shows the of how the American Dream unwrapped the moral disgust and pushed people who were crazy about money. To Gatsby, his dream was all about Daisy and to have her in his life

     While there are numerous themes throughout the text of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the most prominent is that of the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that any person, no matter what he or she is, or from where he or she has come, can become successful in life by his or her hard work; it is the idea that a self-sufficient person, an entrepreneur, can be a success. In this novel, however, it is the quest for this ‘dream’ (along with the pursuit of a romantic dream) that causes the ultimate downfall of Jay Gatsby.

The main theme of the novel “The Great Gatsby” focuses on the American Dream and it is portrayed through the life of Jay Gatsby. Through Gatsby’s life we see the withering of the American Dream, a tragedy that struck Jay’s near finished dream. The American Dream is what many have hoped of achieving, it has existed in the past and is in the present. The American Dream gives people a goal that they can work towards, it also gives them a purpose in life. The American Dream represents luxury and wealth it believes the goodness of the quality of life. For Jay Gatsby, he was so close to achieving the American Dream. He had the wealth and the class, all he needed was his long lost love, Daisy. Gatsby truly believed that he

Nick describes him as, “the single most hopeful person I ever met.” We can learn from Gatsby’s character in the film that the American Dream offers people an opportunity to improve upon their past. Gatsby grew up in a poor family but he always knew that he was meant for something more. Gatsby want to be rich but also he wanted to seem that he always been rich, so he moved out, changed his name and identity and set to achieve his goal. He did many things as the film showed and the result of his effort was that he became a very wealthy

       In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the principle character, Jay Gatsby makes an exhaustive effort in his quest for the American Dream. The novel is Fitzgerald's vessel of commentary and criticism of the American Dream. “Fitzgerald defines this Dream, he depicts its’ beauty and irresistible lure”(Bewley 113). Through Gatsby's downfall, Fitzgerald expresses the futility and agony of the pursuit of the dream.

Social class is like a boat. It does not matter how big or how costly your boat is, if it has a hole, it will eventually sink. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, money is depicted as a representation of the American Dream. Through gaining money, one may feel that he is able to achieve a higher social class within the community, but in reality they will never be more than what they were born into. The novel makes a naturalism argument about how men and women are predestined to remain within their social and economic class with little to no hope for social mobility.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, we gain access to the characters lives and how they try to fight naturalism by making an attempt to rise up in the social class system. Evidently, the novel makes a Naturalism argument about not being able to rise from one social class to another; The Great Gatsby says that we as people do not have a choice of social class and are put into a single class. You can only start off from where you are put and stay in that class. In The Great Gatsby, it is easy to recognize the story agree with Naturalism, when it says you are born into one social class, moreover people cannot move up or down in the classes of society.

The great Gatsby is a classic novel in which money is centered around everything. All Jay Gatsby wants to do is live the American dream. Some say Gatsby did live the American dream. Though Gatsby made lots of money and threw tons of parties their was one thing he was missing. The thing Gatsby was missing was a peaceful state of mind and a lover. In this book written by Scott Fitzgerald called The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby finds out the American Dream isn 't attainable by everyone.

The Great Gatsby is a novel that illustrates the society in the 1920's and the associated beliefs, values and dreams of the American population at that time. These beliefs, values and dreams can be summed up be what is termed the "American Dream", a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. This underworld infiltrated the upper echelons and created such a moral decay within general society that paved the way for the ruining of dreams and dashing of hopes as they were placed confidently in the chance for opportunities that could be seized by one and all. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the

“... it is a story about failure and death, an idealistic quest for unworthy goals, and the almost total collapse of the aspirations of nearly all of the principal characters” (Nagel 113). The Great Gatsby is a story that represents people’s unachieved aspirations that lead to a sad existence and ultimately death. They are all trying to attain one thing, the American Dream. The American Dream is almost impossible to attain and that is why a lot of people failed when it came to living out the American Dream. In Fitzgerald’s, “The Great Gatsby”, Gatsby tries to attain the American Dream through Daisy throughout the whole novel but fails and is left heartbroken.

The hero of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, also pursues the American Dream of becoming a self-made man like Franklin and models his actions after Franklin. Although Gatsby emulates Franklin’s attention to money, Gatsby ultimately fails in fulfilling his American Dream because his expectations can never satisfy his desires and the society he aspires to join is selfish.

Although "The Great Gatsby" is filled with multiple themes such as love, money, order, reality, illusion and immorality, no one would probably deny that the predominate one focuses on the American Dream and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The attempt to capture the American Dream is the central of this novel. This can be explained by how Gatsby came to get his fortune. By studying the process of how Gatsby tried to achieve his own so-called American Dream, we could have a better understanding of what American dream is all about, in those down-to-earth Americans' point of view. The characterization of Gatsby is a representative figure among Americans as he devoted his whole life to achieve his dream.

The Great Gatsby is set in post WWI America and at the time, the American dream was for any hardworking person to be able to achieve success and happiness regardless of their background or social class. This was a time of great change and revolution with the roaring twenties and rising middle class.

Gatsby refuses to not meet his aspirations and will fulfill his dream by any means necessary. Although Gatsby’s intentions and motivation to become successful are pure, the way he obtains his status is extremely foul and criminal. Gatsby participates in organized crime, trades stolen securities, and bootlegs illegal alcohol. Instead of Gatsby using his wit and intelligence in an honest hard working way, he participates in corrupt acts, which will guarantee him his wealth and status. It is this aspect of Gatsby’s life where Fitzgerald expresses the decline of The American Dream. He tries to show his readers the demoralization of our society and how greed and power are a form of empty success that a lot of Americans buy in to.