Part one of term paper
The American Dream is defined as an American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire. Anthony Brandt stated that “In the deepening gloom of the Depression, the American Dream represented a reaffirmation of traditional American hopes.” The Great Gatsby, a sensitive, satiric fable, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald portra ...

Part two of term paper
... the depravation of the American Dream. Out of Fitzgerald's presentation and analysis of the lives of Gatsby, Nick, and the Buchanans comes the final theme that the American idealism has been corrupted by adopting materialism as its means. The substitution of attractive but false goals, represented by Daisy, as the fulfillment of the historical promise of America, has changed the new world (the east) from a “fresh, green breast” to a grotesque waste land where only the morally irresponsible ...