Great Gatsby

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory -F. Scott Fitzgerald -1924 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald fingered these thoughts into his typewriter one morning in 1924, upon writing his greatest novel and one of the most acclaimed literary works of all time, The Great …

…find the same answers and values that people found eighty years ago. Was Gatsby really a bootlegger? Did he actually deal with dubious stocks? Of course, there is no doubt. But the spirit of the twenties, and the author who chose to utilize this spirit leave the reader blind to this. Instead, Fitzgerald’s “hero” was a product and victim of that romantically materialistic current ever present throughout the decade and all thereafter-the American Dream.