which critiques its degeneration from a nation of infinite hope and

opportunity to a place of moral destitution. The novel is set during the

Roaring Twenties, an era of outrageous excesses, wild lavish parties and

sadly, an era of regret and lost potential. As the audience, they take us

on a journey guided and influenced by the moral voice of Nick Carraway, a

character who is "simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the

inexhaustible variety of life." Nevertheless, when Carraway rejects the

East, returning to the comparatively secure morality of his ancestral West,

we realize that gaiety was merely a thin facade, and that behind it lurked

a hideous ugliness that penetrated to the essence of the human spirit.

It was during the Jazz generation that the common man, a man no

different to James Gatz, pursued the glowing icons of his age. As religion

gradually faded away, it was money that had become an object of veneration.

The desire to become wealthy was parceled in the form of the American Dream,

a savage ideal that was fundamentally flawed from the outset. The fallacy

of the American Dream cursed all who aspired to its promises while the

illusion that he believed that his social status could recreate the past.

However, there could never be a union between Gatsby's "unutterable vision"

has created a world in which reality is undefined to itself and thus

borne back ceaselessly into the past" as they are forever haunted by the

"looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves... he found what

It therefore follows that Gatsby's demise represents the plight of

upon the realization of chaos, the innate qualities of the human spirit are

a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely

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Approximate Word count = 875
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)