Fitzgerald illustrates in The Great Gatsby, the corruption of the American Dream in the 1930s, as Jay Gatsby represents the American’s failure to obtain a better and fulfilling life due to their inability to separate themselves from their shallow visions of wealth and status. Fitzgerald perfectly created the extreme of a wealth focused life and the results that come with it. Nick cited, “He had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream” (161). Gatsby prevented himself from living a fulfilling life by limiting his dreams and ambitions to Daisy and money, which reflects the average American’s greed for wealth in today’s society as people today drift away from the value of friends and the great experiences life has to offer, and more towards the idea of a single dream for
Fitzgerald illustrates in The Great Gatsby, the corruption of the American Dream in the 1930s, as Jay Gatsby represents the American’s failure to obtain a better and fulfilling life due to their inability to separate themselves from their shallow visions of wealth and status. Fitzgerald perfectly created the extreme of a wealth focused life and the results that come with it. Nick cited, “He had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream” (161). Gatsby prevented himself from living a fulfilling life by limiting his dreams and ambitions to Daisy and money, which reflects the average American’s greed for wealth in today’s society as people today drift away from the value of friends and the great experiences life has to offer, and more towards the idea of a single dream for