Part one of term paper
A good novel has a number of themes. Throughout this book several appear. The following are important themes of The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s, a period when the old values that gave substance to the dream had been corrupted by the pursuit of wealth. The characters are ...

Part two of term paper
... which is being criticized; it’s the corruption of the American Dream. The once, American Dream of noble goals, has been changed into the pursuit of power, pleasure and a showy but empty form of success. As you read the novel, you come across many images of blindness; is this because hardly anyone seems to see what is really going on? The characters have little self-knowledge of each other. Even Gatsby, lacks the insight to understand what is happening. He never truly sees either Daisy or him ...