The American Dream In F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The American Dream'

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The thesis of Kimberley Hearne’s essay “Fitzgerald’s Rendering of a Dream” is at the end of the first paragraph and reads “It is through the language itself, and the recurrent romantic imagery, that Fitzgerald offers up his critique and presents the dream for what it truly is: a mirage that entices us to keep moving forward even as we are ceaselessly borne back into the past (Fitzgerald 189).” Hearne’s essay provides information on the misconception of The American Dream that Fitzgerald conveys through “The Great Gatsby”. She provides countless evidence that expresses Fitzgerald’s view of The American Dream, and explains that Fitzgerald’s writing of the novel is to express to Americans what The American Dream truly is. Hearne first analyzes the language of “The Great Gatsby” and says that the language reflects the distortion of The American Dream, and that Americans rely on images and illusions rather than reality. American are in love with the illusion of what The American Dream seems to be rather than the reality of what it actually is. This point leads into Hearne’s next one about how The American Dream is flawed, and while it appears …show more content…

He talks about Gatsby’s bootlegging, he talks about Myrtle’s desire to marry Tom, he talks about Wolfshiem being a gangster and all the illegal activities he participates in, Daisy being a killer and allowing Gatsby to take the fall for it, almost all of the characters having affairs, save a few, Tom being afraid of losing to Gatsby or Wilson, and Jordan, a famous athlete who were worshiped during that time, is a cheat. All of the characters in the novel somehow represent a major event or fad occurring in the nineteen twenties. That while these characters are praised for being who they are, how they got there and how they act is hardly worth

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