Great_Gatsby_And_The_Illusion_Of_The_American_Dream

Great Gatsby And The Illusion Of The American Dream The Illusion of the American Dream America has always been classified as the land of the free and the home of the brave. It has never been classified as the land of the rich and the home of the socially powerful. Society, however, still feels that the ideal way of life is to be rich and powerful. This ideal way of life can be defined as the American dream. Many movies, stories, folktales, and novels include examples of how being rich and powerful are the best and only way of life and the only way to be happy. One of the most well known examples is the children’s story of Cinderella, who finds happiness only when she becomes rich. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, however, takes a completely different outlook on the American dream (Mizener 1). In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the story’s narrator, sees the many ways in which Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson all fail by believing and trying to live within the illusion of the American dream. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is the greatest example of falling into the illusion of the American gatsby, dream, daisy, american, tom, nick, rich, myrtle, fitzgerald, money, illusion, great, gatsby’s, gallo, however, society, sees, wealth, people, life, shows, scott, beautiful, mizener, gross, after, about, social, man, love, living, killed, just, within, powerful