Great Dream
On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. Actually it is a story of the distorted American dream failing in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.
The American dream is that one can pursue their goals in life through hard work and moral righteousness. But in 1920‘s, as this novel The Great Gatsby published, the American economy soared. People began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. The unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed the other more noble goals. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators scramble for wealth greedily. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, roaring jazz age, evidenced in its cynicism greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. Gatsby's dream is ruined by the unworthiness of its object-money and pleasure.
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