The American Dream in The Great Gatsby

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The American Dream in The Great Gatsby
The novel, The Great Gatsby, seems to be a narrative of a disenchanted love between male and female. The narrative, however, focuses on a much wider scope. In the works, Fitzgerald describes the decade of prosperity and depravity enjoyed by America in the 1920s, terming it as the “Jazz Age.” The American economy of the 1920s created a society characterized by shallow recklessness and hypocrisy in the American period of extraordinary material excess and prosperity.
Curnutt, Kirk. “Fitzgerald’s Consumer World.” A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004): 85-128.
Outwardly, Fitzgerald might appear like an improbable ally in the text-based criticism of the consumer tradition in America in the 1920s, for some writers reveled so deliberately in the supreme fling for human history that had dominated the era. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald utilizes the novels setting and characters to portray the capitalist tradition of the Americans in the era. The early 20th century is dominated by consumerism defined by deterministic standards of class and morality. The possession of quantifiable goods was seen as a tool to elevating individual personality (Curnutt 91).
Degeyter, Heather Elizabeth. Beyond Woman, Mystery, and Myth: A Study of Daisy Fay Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s” The Great Gatsby.” The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work of t…