Themes of Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald almost gave his novel the title of ‘Under the Red, White and Blue’. What does this suggest about the deeper themes of this American novel? This alternative title suggests that The Great Gatsby is (although not an obvious) distopian novel, which discusses the problems of the 1920s, the problems of American Dream and all that can be associated with it. I will also examine the obstacles of greed, and immorality, and that …

…who made us. In this essay I have discussed and analysed the themes that make up the intricate web of this novel, which transports the readers feelings and emotions, and amalgamate and re-separate them, so they are unrecognisable from those at the beginning of the novel. I have discussed the relevance of these themes, and how the removal of any one, would cause the ultimate destruction of the plot and the novel as a whole