The Dream is Dead

What does the American Dream mean to you ? To F. Scott Fitzgerald the author of The Great Gatsby , the American dream has been corrupted. The dream has been transformed from security and happiness into a state of materialistic power and immorality. Fitzgerald’s tragic story of a young dreamer, is modeled after the way the American dream is now lost forever to the American people. As David Trask asserts in his essay “the American dream …

…of the modern American dream has of surviving in the new corrupt, money hungry world dies with him. When George Wilson commits suicide, the hope of the true hard working man making it in the new corrupt world drift away with his soul. With the story of Gatsby’s tragic idealistic love, Fitzgerald simultaneously shows the end of American values. The American dream has been forever forgotten by human greed and the love for money.