Perhaps one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most remarkable works, The Great Gatsby is not only a magnificent narrative, but an insightful account of the disciplinary flaws of the 1920s. Fitzgerald’s novel creates an atmosphere of superficiality, dissatisfaction and indecency through the illustration of each character’s failure. With economic growth, the 20’s whore company eventually brought corruption to the American to achieve prosperity.
At the end of the first chapter, at the end Daisy is introduced to the yard of green light, a symbol of hope and promise for the future of The Great Gatsby. In the second chapter, however, the reader is presented, “… the valley of ashes… where the ashes take the houses and the chimneys and the rising smoke, and finally the darkness of the people who are already collapsing.” dusty air “. The valley of ashes can be interpreted as the superficial and squalid materialistic world that the characters live in. The author’s use of great imagery helps to emphasize the setting and the crumbling foundation of society.
In Fitzgerald’s novel, Gatsby is labeled as “new money”. Coming from no wealthy background and building his fortunes early in life, Gatsby accomplished almost every aspect of the American Dream with hard work, determination, and determination, but he failed to achieve success. Money criticism explains the corruption of Gatsby’s behavior when he describes Daisy. His voice is full of money. Often known as a symbol of wealth, Daisy was Gatsby’s main goal. Gatsby had a huge need to impress Daisy with his wealth; except that all these years the money had been acquired by his vicious mind he could offer.
The 1920’s were a time of great generosity and when large sums of money were being circulated, dishonesty flowed easily. “Everyone at least suspects himself of the cardinal virtues, and these are mine: one of the few honest ones I have ever known.” Nick Carraway’s candid comment shows the total dishonesty of the “Roaring Twenties”. Because Carraway came from the Midwest and New York, his statement about knowing a few decent people proves that corruption was widespread in the 1920s.
The murders, the events and the disregard of the law in which Fitzgerald’s novel chose to accept confirm the diversity of the American Dream and the smallness that money can bring to fulfill satisfaction. Gatsby’s unquenchable thirst for profit is infected by Daisy’s financial motives. In the end, Fitzgerald’s purpose in writing The Great Gatsby was to show how the American Dream was corrupted in the 1920s and left ambition stripped of its pursuit of pleasure.
