The Great Gatsby: The Decline of The American Dream Essay -- The Great

The pursuit of the American Dream has been alive for generations. People from nations every last(predicate) over the world come to America for the chance to achieve this known dream of freedom, opportunity, and the all American family. However, in the 1920s this dream began to draw a different form. F. Scott Fitzgeralds, The large(p) Gatsby, unfolds what the American Dream really meant during the boom 20s. The Great Gatsby tells a story of the affluent Jay Gatsby and his dream of attaining the beloved of the married Daisy Buchanan. In this novel, Gatsbys dream of love is unmasked and reviled as a dream of materialistic things. Fitzgerald shows that each character unfeignedly glorifies only m bingley, power, and sociable stature. During the 1920s, these things were the only thing people dreamt about. The symbolism in The Great Gatsby illustrates how the American Dream became corrupt in the 1920s.Fitzgerald has an amazing talent to create symbols for things that could be overloo ked by any reader such as colors. every(prenominal) color mentioned has a meaning even if it may not reckon it. albumen and green are the main colors mentioned in the novel. White can often be portrayed as wholesome and innocent. However, in this novel white actually represents the false purity or decency in some of these characters. Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisys, are always seen wearing something white. Daisy and Jordan some(prenominal) seem as if they are sweet and innocent at first, further deep down you see it is only and act and they are truly careless and selfish. Gatsby also wore white on his first meeting with Daisy after five years so that he would appear to be neat and pure. The 1920s also had this way of deception. The fads such as jazz, fashion and trick all made the 1920... ... Gatsbys dream of winning Daisy embodied the American Dream in the 20s. Gatsby, as well as everyone in the 20s, only dreamt of the materialistic in life and it didnt event how it was achieved. When talking about Gatsby, Nick says, If that was true he must nurse felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a individual(a) dream. (Fitzgerald 161). This quote explains that its sad that one man only had one dream that he paid high prices for and never got it. Fitzgerald shows that in the 1920s people only had one dream of power no case what it took, and in the end it was never attained because of the selfishness of their dream. Through Fitzgeralds symbolism, it is shown that the American Dream in the 1920s was corrupt and fell apart.Work CitedFitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York Scribner, 2004. Print.