American Dream So Many Things Term Paper

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Fitzerald reveals to the reader that happiness is not a thing, which you can buy with money or handpick with power. His fulfillment of the requirements oh the "Dream" has come to such a point that between the lines the reader sees how desperate he is. So what is the American Dream that is criticized in the definition of Scott Fitzgerald? It is successful life and work through which people obtain the material acknowledgement of their success and become happy when they do. The problem is that having the person you "love" also start being a "material acknowledgement," too. The essence of the book is that when the moral principles are low, people choose any means for achieving success and people are interested only in the result. The real understanding of the "American dream" is lost by the characters in this book and by this Fitzerald shows that there is no need for a dream like this. It is a dream with the same name, but with a different content. Having money is not a guarantee of true happiness. "Her voice is full of money," says Gatsby, "I can buy her," means Fitzgerald (the Great Gatsby p.102). We want to conclude using the scene when Daisy does confess that she was the one driving the car and by this she signs Gatsby's death penalty. She uses Gatsby and he is ready to put her guilt over his shoulders. This little scene shows how much is love and devotion valued and how responsible can these "American dream seekers" be. Success "against all odds" may not bring happiness but in the contrary it may bring even a greater pain and disappointment.

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What Fitzgerald true believes is that the American dream has been corrupted by materialism, by the effort to substitute the true meaning of the dream with its fake understanding of people who lack morality.

Fitzgerald succeeded in exposure of "American dream" as the novel was written about and referred to "American prosperity," the years of prohibition, careless and idle behavior of society. It was time when money where made nearly "out of air." It was an epoch when mercantilism ruled over the minds of people, but this euphoria was stopped in 1927 and it was a crash of "American dream" of the whole generation of young people, who experienced WW1 and who wanted changed after it was over. Time had shown that their approach was illogical and irrational from moral and from economical point-of-view. It showed that even money are the foundation of economics, they cannot be the foundation of human soul, of a man with senses and feelings. Human nature will always revolt, no matter how hard it is oppressed by mercantilism and pragmatism.

We support Scott Fitzgerald in his opinion. This dream will be not achievable as long as people do not stop garbling it. They need to start understanding the real value of the treasure that is so rare nowadays: dignity and forget about materialism......

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