The Great Gatsby를 통해 본 American dream = A study on The Geart Gatsby: based on the American dream

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The aim of this study is to pursue the artistry of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and of course, as an artist. Maybe the best thing to do is to confine our attention to The Great Gatsby, because that is his master work. There are a number of ways of reading The Great Gastsby. For example, we can read it as an Fitzgerald's criticism of America, or we can read it as a chronicle of the jazz Age in the United States, or we can read it as a fable of the east and the West of America. However, perhaps the best way to study this novel is to study it as we red it in all these different ways.
And so in this study, I have considered the American dream through The great Gatsby, the nature and the origin of the American dream and how it has been changed to fit these desolate times in America. The first part of this paer deals with the nature and origin of the American dream. In the second part I have analyzed Gastsby's dream. Finally I have compared this dream to the american dream. Concluding that Gasby becomes a symbol of America itself.
Fitzgerald's character, Gatsby in The Great Gatsby represents the irony of American history and the corruption of the American dream. On the contrary, it can be shown that The Great Gatsby offers some of the severest, and closest criticism of the american dream that american literature affords. This novel embodies a criticism of American experience not of manners, but of a basic historic attitude to life.
Gatsby is the inhabitant of that age addicted to the romantic dream. Those who came over the New World believing in God and “the green light” were romantic heroes. They wanted to build up a happy kingdom, so called, the earthly paradise, there where the green light and green field lay before their eyes. They had the ability of selfcontrol that came from Puritanism. gatsby, more accurately fitzgerald, was one of the most typical descendants of those americans. But, historically, the American dream is anti-Calvinistic, and believed in the goodness of nature and man. It is accordingly a product of the frontier and the West rather than of the Puritan tradition. Youth of the spirit as well as of the body, is arequirement of its existence. And still ir 1920s when it was the time too late for such dream of any kind, Fitzgerald expressed those positive feelings, those visions of lustrous and romantic heaven. that is the very guilt Fitzgerald incurred. But the compensation begins with The Great Gatsby, a drama of disillusionment: “that America had produced an idealism so imparable that is had lost touch with reality9Gatsby) and a materialism so heavy that it was inhuman(Daisy and Tom).” The novel as a whole is another turn of the screw on this legend, with the impossible idealism trying to relize itself, to its utter destruction, in the gross materiality.
And we are aware that The Great Gatsby is not simply a chronicle of the jazz Age but rather a cramatization of the betrayal of the naive American dream in a corrupt society. Besides, Gatsby has been as mythic character. Not only is he an “embodiment of that conflict between illusion and reality at the heart of American life,” he is an heroic personification of the American romantic hero, the true heir of the american dream. In this sense, he became a symbol of America itself.