The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel demonstrating the aspect of American Dream as pursuit of wealth and happiness, the need to redeem oneself and measure self worth through the amount of possession one has. Gatsby and the Buchanans demonstrate wealth and upper class while Myrtle and George Wilson play the roles of working class that will be unable to make their American Dream come true due to the powerful suppression from the upper class society. Jay Gatsby is the one character that truly embodies the meaning of the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby constantly improves himself and attempt to achieve what he does not have, intellectually or materially. Gatsby is committed to accomplishing his goals and works his hardest to attain it. However, Gatsby mainly represents the American Dream because he is always pursuing more wealth, reputation, and possession instead of being satisfied with what he already has. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.