The Great Gatsby

Title: The Great Gatsby
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 986 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Great Gatsby

Pat AP English .4 March 4, 2001 Daydream Believer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of events, characters, setting and values in The Great Gatsby, all help illustrate to the reader his view of the true romantic vision. Through Gatsby Fitzgerald presents the reader with a character who is trying to live his own “American Dream” by doing one thing; gaining status. To Gatsby status is, money, power, education, sex, and a background. Gatsby who starts out his life …showed first 75 words of 986 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 986 total…it was a big party and fun for the wealthy, was soon followed by the Great Depression of the 1930’s. No matter how hard one tries to capture the American Dream, Fitzgerald makes it clear to the reader that gaining wealth and living extravagantly might seem great, but it only sets one self up for a huge downfall, as in Gatsby’s case where he lost everything, his love, his status, and his life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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