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On its face The Great Gatsby is a story about thwarted love between a
man and a woman, but the theme is about the great American dream and
how people are trying to achieve it.
The pursuit of social status and material gain inevitably led to the
destruction of the American Dream.
Gatsby was born into a poor family and he only thought of being rich and
achieving the great American dream. An unmistakable symbol used to
depict the American Dream is the green light at the end of Daisy's dock in
East Egg. It is Gatsby's inspiration --the unattainable dream. When he was
poor, Daisy could not marry him, so he worked hard and achieved the height
of the American Dream. He literally recreated himself from virtually nothing,
he made a lot of money yet could not achieve everything.
I decided to call to him. Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner, and that
would do for an introduction. But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden
intimation that he was content to be alonehe stretched out his arms
toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could
have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seawardand
distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away,
that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for
Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
"Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly.
That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money that was the
inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song
of it high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl
According to me in his mind Daisy was also a prize as good as the great
American dream
This novel most of all shows how the great American dream declined.
"Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added
coolly: "He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919."
"Fixed the World's Series?" I repeated. [] "Why isn't he in jail?"
"They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man.
Meyer Wolfsheim fixed the World Series, an enormous crime that Nick
thinks is like "a burglar blowing a safe." But the burglar gets caught;
Wolfsheim uses his wealth and underworld connections to stay squeaky
clean. Apparently you don't have to be high class to benefit from your
wealth.
In Conclusion, I would like to say that this novel is basically about thwarted
love between a man and a woman but its based on the theme of the great
American dream and furthermore shows how corrupt it is and how corrupt
that has made society. In turn creating a difference between the rich and
the poor people, not only materialistically but morally.