The Dreamers; Reviewing The Great Gatsby

THE DREAMERS

(Review of The Great Gatsby)

THE DREAMERS;

THE GREAT GATSBY

  The Great Gatsby is a novel among the most popular classics of American literature, written by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century. The Great Gatsby was published in the year 1925. Fitzgerald has put his own life experiences into Gatsby’s life; he was enlisted in the US army during World War 1 this detail about his past is woven into Gatsby’s past as well. Fitzgerald’s was abandoned by his fiancée who refused to marry him as she thought him not quite capable of supporting her, however they got back together after some time, he has put this part of his life too into the novel.   In  this  book,  Fitzgerald  has  written  about  dreams  or  rather  the  American  Dream.  Fitzgerald  talks  about  the  narcissism  of  Daisy, a  woman  who is self obsessed and shallow enough to not care even for her young child. The betrayal of the woman based on reasons purely material and the obsession of wealth. Fitzgerald tells the reader about the flaws of the world through the characters of the novel, how desires of obtaining wealth, comfort and power weaken you as a human being. The emotions fade away and become meaningless faced with the desires of luxury. The author summarizes the entire American dream in his characters which represents all Americans or better put as American Dreamers. It is the greed of man that can give him the ability to direct his emotions to wherever he finds more ease, comfort, wealth and a higher standard of living.