Great_Gatsby

Great Gatsby Fitzgerald exhibits the moral deterioration, the desire to obtain the ‘American Dream’, and how American ideals are different with the actual social conditions that exist in society, through Nick Caraway’s eyes in the novel The Great Gatsby. Each one of the characters in the novel, have a certain dream that they want to live. They each have a picture of what they want, and selfishly, they stop at nothing to get it. All; to reach what they believe to be “happiness”, puts religion, morality and kindness aside. Myrtle, whom entered her life striving to be wealthy, married a man who rented a tux for their wedding, and “wasn’t fit to lick her shoe”. She attempted to become a member of Tom’s wealthier, more sophisticated class. She begins an affair with Tom, resulting in her inheriting his values, and way of living. She begins to belittle people from her own class and loses all sense of the honor and respect she once had. Myrtle never reached the role she so desired. Instead, her life was cut short by the world she wanted to be apart of. Gatsby, the mysterious neighbor and gentleman, turns out to be nothing out, life, novel, social, one, love, happiness, gatsby, within, way, wasn’t, values, truth, society, shows, rich, physical, off, obtain, nothing, nick, myrtle, moral, money, material, man, made, loved, instead, fit, daisy’s, daisy, class, begins, another, american, already, affair, old, dreams, american, yearned, worth, world, worked, word, win, wife, whom, wedding