The Great Gatsby!

5. Evaluate The Great Gatsby as a criticism of the corruption of the American Dream.

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the American dream is portrayed by Gatsby. Jay Gatsby falls in love with Daisy Buchanan but Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. However Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. But Myrtle is married to George Wilson. The story of The Great Gatsby is told by Nick Carraway who is in love with Jordan baker. The American dream is portrait by Gatsby because of the amount of money he owns and likes to throw parties when even he wants. There are affairs happening a lot with Gatsby. He seems like this perfect person, he is always throwing parties that people go to from different places far away. Tom is an alcoholic and abuses his mistress, Myrtle, and Daisy married the wrong person, and she loves someone else now. The Great Gatsby is not the American dream.

In the second chapter of the book there is dinner party in which Tom, Myrtle, Nick, Catherine, Jordan, and Mr. McKee partake in at Catherine’s apartment. At first it starts out well and everything is going fine. Until things turn violent and they start drinking. Myrtle starts yelling Daisy’s name many times; tom reacts to this by slapping her face and breaking her nose. This party starts as an ideal American party and it is perfect in everyway. But soon after wards the party is not a good party because of the over drinking and violence. This does not portray the American dream because no one would want to go to a party where people are fighting and there is violence.

Gatsby is the ideal idol for the American Dream because he is perfect in everyway. Gatsby has a lot of money and is always having huge parties that everyone in town goes to. In the beginning of the book Gatsby starts out as a mysterious and questionable person. But as you get deeper in to the book you start doubting him. Everything Gatsby does is fake; his entire identity was created when he turned the age of 18. He starts out by changing his name from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby and lied about were his family was from. Gatsby’s was rumored as a bootlegger. In the end they find out that is was really a bootlegger.

Gatsby as you know has a lot of money and is popular. But the reason why Gatsby was doing this was to impress Daisy. He throws a lot of wild parties just for Daisy. Gatsby has a big obsession over Daisy. He spends most of his nights looking at the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock which is just across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby wants nick to arrange a reunion between him and Daisy. So that Gatsby can be with Daisy. Daisy comes to nicks house were Gatsby is also there. Shortly after Gatsby and Daisy’s love rekindled they begin an affair together. Gatsby takes the blame for the car that killed myrtle thinking that he will not get in trouble for it. But George got all the facts straight and found out. Gatsby was swimming in the pool at his mansion when George finds him and shoots him. Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted because he was not honest to anyone and because of his money. The American dream of happiness was ruined and over for the Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby started off as a book that everything and everybody is person and Gatsby has a lot of money. He has a lot of elaborate parties to try and get Daisy back. Tom is violent and breaks myrtles nose. Gatsby is fake ad has lied about this entire identity Gatsby tryes to woe daisy and get her back so that he can be happy with her again. The Great Gatsby does not represent the american dream and can never reach it.