The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is recognized in American Literature as one of his greatest achievements. Many of Fitzgerald's works research the Jazz-Age for the single American dream of happiness and wealth (Poupard, Person 146). "Critics concur that The Great Gatsby rises above being a mere chronicle of a past American era, and most believe that the novel's continued popularity demonstrates modern America's fascination with the American dream" (Poupard, Person 147). In this book Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to compare the real American dreamer with what has become of the American society in the 1920's. During the 1920's America was unable to fulfill dreams and expose the blindness in Jazz-Age Americans. "The Great Gatsby is an exploration of the American dream as it exists in a corrupt period, and it is an attempt to determine the concealed boundary that divides the reality from the illusions" (Bewley 38). Jay Gatsby is a builder as well as a dreamer, and Gatsby puts his all into figuring out his "ethical dream" (Minter 82).

The Great Gatsby was written in a poor society with no moral virtues. Dreamers in a healthy society are respected and encouraged. However, in t

Jay Gatz is a misfit in this society. Gatz is an extremely wealthy man living in a large residence in West Egg, New York. Gatz tries to fit into this world by purchasing expensive cars; high fashion garments, and furnishes his house with costly objects. Gatsby is known for his extravagant parties on Saturday nights. Gatsby has these parties in hope that he will make friends rather that just acquaintances. At those parties Gatsby's house is full of parasites, busybody's, and fools. However, he died alone. Nobody came to his funeral to pay respects to him and his father. However Jay Gatz will never become one of "them".

Lockridge, Ernest H. "Introduction." In Twentieth Century Interpretations

Research Company Book Tower. 1984. P. 146 - 181.

Bewley, Marius. "Scott Fitzgerald's Criticism of America." In Twentieth

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