The Great Gatsby, a self-made man

The Great Gatsby, the self-made man In 1926 the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published and is often described as a great love story. But I will focus on the time period this story takes place and try to set it in context with the culture of the 1920s during which Fitzgerald himself was a leading figure and helped give the name to an age, the Jazz Age. I will also …

…are proved wrong with the social discrimination Tom and Daisy execute. Through Gatsby we learn how powerful hope and dreams can be to a person and what an empty existence of those who have no hope and dreams. It’s not the American Dreams fault that Gatsby fails, it’s the corruption of the society with its loss of values. The Great Gatsby is not criticizing the American Dream itself but the corruption of it.