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  • Essay / The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1238

    Gatsby is a character in the short novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, who is used as an example of a victim of the American dream. According to Joseph Yumang of Coastlinejournal.org, the American dream has rapidly changed: "Advertising, the power elite, and the media, however, have diluted people's ideas of success, making them believe that wealth, power, and fame are the only paths to success. American Dream.” Jay Gatsby is a man who lives the so-called "American dream", he owns a big mansion, spends money like crazy, throws big parties every week, has clothes of every color and design. styles, it has everything anyone would want. His wealth was not inherited or obtained in a morally correct way, rather it came from his illegal moonshine trade during Prohibition. This business gave Gatsby the unlimited funds needed to afford everything he could and live a lavish life among the rich. Gatsby had a reputation as a mysterious man with many speculations about his past. Gatsby knew all the important people in New York and all the important people knew him; Almost no one from the lower social class knew who he really was until his death, but one thing was for sure, Gatsby's name was known to everyone. He lived the life of what most people call the American dream, but in reality it did not bring him happiness. Gatsby did not start at the top of the social ladder, rather he had to work his way up little by little until he finally reached the top. Before Gatsby's rise to power, he created his own upper-class persona. With the change in character, Gatsby went from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby, a fictional character created to fit in with the upper class. Gatsby's wealth, fame and social class are what most people...... middle of paper ....... He deeply believed that if he was able to convince Daisy that he was the “perfect” man for her she would go with him. Gatsby had almost accomplished what he sought until his true face of corruption and false past were revealed. He lost everything, happiness was no longer within his reach from that moment on. Fitzgerald used Gatsby's social status to prove that even when successfully reaching the top of the social class stairs, it is not enough to truly find happiness or the "American Dream" of reaching the top. Gatsby was a victim believing that if he could also reach the same class as Daisy he could have it, but Gatsby's flaw was that he was born into a poor class and Daisy into an upper class from the beginning. With this drawback Gatsby had to fake his style and attitude, he went from Jimmy Gatz to the fake Jay Gatsby persona..