The Great Gatsby And Destruction Of The American Dream

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f the American Dream “had been corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth” (Abbott: Lektürenhilfe – The Great Gatsby, 29). What used to be, in times of the Declaration for Independence, a “belief in human equality […] with respect to social, political, and economic right and privileges” (Webster’s Dictionary, 37) has become a material version in which everyone has only one goal - to become rich.
Even today, America has the reputation to be the country of unlimited possibilities and there are still many rags-to-rich stories which can only happen in the United States.

3. The American Dream represented in The Great Gatsby

If you read this novel for the first time, maybe just for fun, you might think it was a beautiful but tratic love story. However, after putting more interpretation in it and getting some historical and social background information of the story, you will soon find out that Fitzgerald wanted to put more meaning in this novel than just a simple love affair. Surely, there are different themes represented in th...