Gatsby's Corruptive Nature The Great Gatsby , written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a portrayal of the withering of the American Dream. The American Dream promises prosperity and self-fulfillment as rewards for hard work and self-reliance. A product of the frontier and the west, the American Dream challenges people to have dreams and strive to make them real. Historically, the Dream represents the image of believing in the goodness of nature. However, the American Dream can …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…are doomed by their self-delusion. Thus, by analyzing Fitzgerald's presentation and analysis in The Great Gatsby to America as a whole, one can say that peoples thoughts and values are often misplaced in the pursuit of material wealth. "Jay Gatsby, the central figure of the story, is one character who longs for the past. Surprisingly he devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture and, finally, dies in its pursuit." (Prasad Paragraph 2) Bibliography me