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Theme Great Gastby

“The Great Gatsby” a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a highly symbolic reflection of the United States in the 1920s.   Fitzgerald was able to portray the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, confirmation in its overarching sarcasm, greed, and the empty pursuit of pleasure. The surface of the story beholds the embittered love between a man a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much greater, less romantic scope. The strong theme “The American Dream”, was shaped and created with the pertinent components within the mind; “materialism, selfishness and social standing”. "The American Dream” a term first used by James Truslow Adams is a "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” Some say, that the American Dream has become the pursuit of material prosperity - that people work more hours to get bigger cars, fancier homes, the fruits of prosperity for their families - but have less time to enjoy their prosperity. Others say that the American Dream is beyond the grasp of the working poor who must work two jobs to insure their family’s survival. Yet others look toward a new American Dream with less focus on financial gain and more emphasis on living a simple, fulfilling life.
In the novel all the characters related one way or another. Fitzgerald positioned the characters as emblems of social trends. They all had in common the attempt of achieving a state of happiness. However, the main characters were divided into two groups: “the rich upper class” and the “poor lower class” that makes a great effort to attain higher standings. Despite the fact that the major characters seek only to alter their lives for the better, the idealism and spiritualism of the American dream was eventually compressed beneath the unsympathetic authenticity of life, which left their lives without meaning or purpose.
In chapter nine the narrator...