Gatsby , the American dream has been corrupted. The dream has been transformed from security and
happiness into a state of materialistic power and immorality. Fitzgerald's tragic story of a young dreamer, is
modeled after the way the American dream is now lost forever to the American people.
As David Trask asserts in his essay "the American dream consists of the belief sometimes thought
as a promise that people of talent in this land of opportunity and plenty could reasonably aspire to material
success if they adhered to a fairly well defined set of behavioral rules" (Trask es
Some common words found in the essay are: Suicide Daisy, Tom Daisy, George Wilson, David Trask, Meyer Wolfshien, Hopalong Cassidy, Gatsby American, Buchanan Daisy, American Dream, american dream, Jay Gatsby, journal gatsby's, Approximate Word count = 469 Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)