The Great Gatsby - Destructive power of dreams

Destructive power is one of the main themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. In the book Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the high class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. The novel illustrates the society in the 1920s and the associated beliefs, values and dreams of the American population of the time. It is through the narrator's dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power, and further, how the world of high society lacks any sense of morals or consequence.

The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. This hope that success is inevitably achieved through hard work and dedication is one in which most people either believes or would like to believe. In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of

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