Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's View of American Society

Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's View of American Society "What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story," was said of Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is about the American Society at its worst and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The idea is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get his happiness Jay Gatsby must reach into the past and relive an …

…they were put there by unforeseen or abrupt circumstances. The American Society on a whole, is not as bad as Fitzgerald portrays it to be. No one spends their whole life going after one girl like Gatsby did. He pursued her for all the wrong reasons. Gatsby’s need for the repetition of the past is very apparent throughout the book. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."