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Themes in Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby Essay

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, there are several themes. Some include The death of the American Dream, hope, and uselessness of women. These all are the three most important themes and expressed a lot throughout the story. Even though this whole story might seem like a romantic tale, one of the important theme’s is actually the death of the American Dream. F.Scott Fitzgerald shows this by showing us the people’s greed for money and decay of the moral values. One example that shows people’s greed is the way Gatsby acquired his money mostly from Dan Cody (pg 107) so he didn’t …show more content…

She kissed Gatsby on his lips and when Jordan complained, she asked her to do the same with Nick. This shows us how she has lost her morality. She’s cheating on her husband right behind his back and she wants those two friends to do the same. Another example of Daisy losing her morality is when Nick says, “..Daisy began to move again with the seasons, suddenly she was again keeping half –a- dozen dates a day with half- a- dozen men and drowsing asleep at dawn…” (pg 158) She’s even worse than Tom. Tom’s just cheating her with one women, Myrtle and stopped seeing her towards the end, but Daisy goes with half- a- dozen men almost everyday. She has the biggest part in killing the American Dream. Another person who held a part in the death of the American Dream was Jordan. She had also lost her morality. “When I had finished she told me without comment that she was engaged to another man.” (pg 185) Jordan had confessed after Nick told her that they had to break up because he was planning to go back to Minnesota. If Nick hadn’t told her, he would have never found out that Jordan was already engaged and planning to marry someone else while she was seeing him. This shows how Jordan has also lost her morality and participated greatly in destroying the American Dream. Secondly, another theme expressed throughout this novel is hope. Gatsby had high hopes to have Daisy all for himself. “‘Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ she admitted, ‘It would be a lie.’” (pg 140)

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