The American Dream in The Great Gatsby

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The American Dream in The Great Gatsby
The novel, The Great Gatsby, seems to be a narrative of a disenchanted love between male and female. The narrative, however, focuses on a much wider scope. In the works, Fitzgerald describes the decade of prosperity and depravity enjoyed by America in the 1920s, terming it as the “Jazz Age.” The American economy of the 1920s created a society characterized by shallow recklessness and hypocrisy in the American period of extraordinary material excess and prosperity.
Curnutt, Kirk. “Fitzgerald’s Consumer World.” A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004): 85-128.
Outwardly, Fitzgerald might appear like an improbable ally in the text-based criticism of the consumer tradition in America in the 1920s, for some writers reveled so deliberately in the supreme fling for human history that had dominated the era. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald utilizes the novels setting and characters to portray the capitalist tradition of the Americans in the era. The early 20th century is dominated by consumerism defined by deterministic standards of class and morality. The possession of quantifiable goods was seen as a tool to elevating individual personality (Curnutt 91).
Degeyter, Heather Elizabeth. Beyond Woman, Mystery, and Myth: A Study of Daisy Fay Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s” The Great Gatsby.” The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work of the 1920s; The Great Gatsby explores the subject of Capitalism in the then American society.

The narrative, through its characters, portrays the capitalist forces at work in America after the Second World War. As a conman and gangster, Gatsby does not characterize the traditional champion displayed in various stories, yet he revitalizes the typical of rooted patriotism American readers from the conception of the novel in the 1920s to the new adaptation of 2013. Even though some scholars have contended over the matter of Gatsby’s immensity for almost a millennium, the thread to the discussion if consistent (Degeyter 4).
Kaston, Carren O. “The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction.” The Henry James Review 2.1 (1980): 68-69.
The narrative utilizes the classic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to illustrate that the American text was male-dominated, that being a male character was the real feeling of being an American. The novel depicts the American vision of getting rid of the strength of a woman and getting rid of females who may demonstrate the characteristics of completely strong human beings. Fitzgerald, therefore, has created a text in which the females are idealized, vilified, or killed (Kaston 69).
Works Cited
Curnutt, Kirk. “Fitzgerald’s Consumer World.” A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004): 85-128.
Degeyter, Heather Elizabeth. Beyond Woman, Mystery, and Myth: A Study of Daisy Fay Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s” The Great Gatsby.” The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015.
Kaston, Carren O. “The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction.” The Henry James Review 2.1 (1980): 68-69.