Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald and the American Dream

The life in the roaring twenties was the life of parties and social gatherings, full of entertainment, laughter, and simplicity of heart without a care in the world. Like Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote, "Dream are true while they last" in The Higher Pantheism, and Tennyson's such thought was evident in the novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's piece can be related to Tennyson's view in that the people of the twenties were living in their dreams …

…to better their status in society and make their American dream come true without any success. They were examples of Fitzgerald’s in his effort to convey his message that the American dream is just a dream for most of us because the people themselves are too ignorant, too demanding and too dependent on their hopeful dreamy lives, the false gayety of the surroundings clouding their ability to see the reality in their true lives.