F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby perfectly illuminates the American life of the Jazz Age. ... 'not just the American dream, but the human dream,'" ("Fitzgerald" 30). ... ("Fitzgerald" 38). ... Furthermore, much has been said of Fitzgerald's relation to his characters. ...
The novel's author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, describes the lives of the upper-class segment of society, a group of which Fitzgerald possesses first-hand knowledge. ... She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage (Fitzgerald 63)." ... F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the wealth-obsessed, self-obsessed attitudes of the 1920's upper-class. ...
Destructive power is one of the main themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. ... Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows the collapse of dreams, whether they are dreams of money, status, or simply of happiness. ...
Destructive power is one of the main themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. ... Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows the collapse of dreams, whether they are dreams of money, status, or simply of happiness. ...
Destructive power is one of the main themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. ... Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows the collapse of dreams, whether they are dreams of money, status, or simply of happiness. ...
Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote many books delving into the 1920s and how the people of this time were careless in their actions. ... In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel the Great Gatsby, morality played a huge factor in how the reader views the people of the 1920s. ... In Fitzgerald's novel the most common dream was wealth, power, and social status. ...
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby have many things in common. ... But Fitzgerald does not see both men as equally corrupt. ... As F. Scott Fitzgerald saw it the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the technique of conflicting, but somewhat similar characters in The Great Gatsby in order to demonstrate how pursuing one's desires can lead to both destruction and growth. ... Fitzgerald seems to be implying that a person's behavioral characteristics are due to their environment. ... Fitzgerald's most obvious concern is that of the upper class. ... Fitzgerald uses the characters to question if this dream is really a dream at all, or rather a nightmare. ...
In the book, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald seems to be saying that materialism and the decline and death of the American dream are interrelated. ... So, what Fitzgerald is essentially saying, is that it is called the "American Dream" for a reason. ... In conclusion, Fitzgerald is saying that unbridled materialism leads to, and is the cause of, the death of the American Dream. ...
