Topic > The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1388

The Roaring Twenties were a time of happiness and celebration, but the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows a different side of this dynamic decade . Fitzgerald uses a touching yet hopeful tone to show the darker side of the 1920s that many refuse to look at, while tying in the brighter side. In The Great Gatsby, the reader is sucked into a story of corruption and emancipation by the rich, hidden by extravagant parties and bright colors. Jay Gatsby, who only dreamed of wealth and love, had an ideal dream life, that ideal life could be called his “American Dream”. His dreams were then shattered by very powerful people, careless people, people who used and abused others to get what they wanted, regardless of the consequences. Those people were Tom and Daisy Buchanan, they were the rich people with power. They destroyed Gatsby's American dream by being careless. Gatsby created this extravagant life for one reason, and one reason only; to impress the girl he had fallen in love with, years earlier. The girl he gave his heart to keep forever, but after Gatsby left for war, he married someone else, someone from a rich old man, like her. She married Tom Buchanan. Although Daisy was married, Gatsby held out hope that they would find a way to be together again, and forever. Towards the end, the reader wonders whether things will go in Gatsby's favor or not, but after the tragic accident that ends three dreams, the reader ignores Gatsby's hope and only hopes for a happier ending, when in reality , Nothing. it ends the way anyone wants it to. Gatsby is a man full of hope. No matter what happens, he clings to the hope of what could be, of what he always dreamed could be, of his "American dream." A dream in which he achieved everything he had ever dreamed of, only to die tragically in the end, with no one by his side. Good things only last up to a certain point, The Great Gatsby showed the darker side of the 1920s, which was hidden behind false identities and fake smiles. The corruption, the deals, the abuses that most got away with, as long as they could repay their debts with their wealth. The touching, yet hopeful tone is about life and how it almost always ends in heartbreak or death. Life, regardless of your achievements, ends in depression, sucks you in, and you either fight it or it kills you. The world is a dog-eat-dog world. You fight to stay alive, to make something of yourself, to survive, and in the end you usually always end up dead in a ditch somewhere, because the world has taken everything you had and more, and you've been drained dry of your abilities. to react.