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The “Great Gatsby” purely an expose of the lifestyle in the 1920’s?
Was F. Scott Fitzgerald intention purely to depict life in the early 1920’s?
The Great Gatsby is set in 1922, directly after world war won. American’s contributing to the victory of the war along side with the allies. America is feeling almost invincible industrially and economically. We were ahead of the rest of the world. This feeling of triumph was a glory moment for the United States. This time is known as the “boom” expenditures of the wealthy was normal and an everyday occurrence. To observe whether the “Great Gatsby” is a good depiction of the time period it is essential to focus on that time period and the moral and values of the people. The lifestyle of the people will help us defy what the American dream really is, and also analyze Gatsby and his search for love.
The depiction of wealth and status in the book is over whelming sometimes and makes me think, “Is that all anyone cared about?” Does that explain the diminishing of the American dream? Were the 1920’s the high light of the American dream? --- Fitzgerald may be trying to describe the stereotypical American dream, and that it is dead. He creates the image that the entire American dream is about ----how material wealth has ruined the true the American dream. When the truth is that we have manipulated the dream to only be about wealth and riches.
Gatsby is the kind of man who would do anything for love, and many of the behaviors are not approved by other individuals. The Great Gatsby is a great example of this statement. “The Great Gatsby” is also a very ironic in that Jay Gatsby is a cheater, and gets money through fraud and lies and is almost the anything else other than great. He wants the “American dream”-of becoming rich and in love. In the book the vision of an American dream seems to be distorted, that everyone is only interested in money, and not the true American dream, is to enjoy freedom and to be successful as possible in your life.
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Kira,
ReplyDeleteI'm simply not sure what your focus is here. This post, while interesting and insightful, doesn't really reveal your specific approach to the novel, so it's hard for me to comment. See me during tutorial or lunch this week, and we can talk (also, check out my comments on some of the posts below).
I basically wanted to talk about how the diminishment of the American dream, I will come talk to you tomorrow at lunch
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