The American Dream Is Invariably Seen To Fail: Discuss In Relation To 'the Great Gatsby'
"The American Dream is invariably seen to fail. Discuss"
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald is seen as one of the greatest American writers, admired by his contemparies and by modern audiences of today. Fitzgerald was very much in tune with the early twentieth century American culture. He is credited with capturing the ‘Jazz Age', which he described as "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken". Fitzgerald observed the culture around him with a critical eye. Despite being able to depict America like few others could, many see Fitzgerald's writing as an indictment on its values.
Works such as The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Absolution (said by Fitzgerald to be an introduction to The Great Gatsby ) are regarded as attacks on the concept of the American Dream and that Fitzgerald believed it to be futile. This disillusionment is most starkly and tragically explored in The Great Gatsby.
The character of Jay Gatsby could......
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