Great Gatsby The Curruption of the American Dream
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The Corrupt American Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby is a story of the corruption of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby's one dream was to win over his love, the married Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby experiences reflect the corruption of the American Dream through three faults: Gatsby focused so strongly on achieving his dream through wealth that it resulted his own corruption. Even though he became wealthy, Gatsby could never truly reach the same social class as Daisy. Daisy was brought up in a society where a girl rarely married outside her own social class. With Gatsby's overzealous focus toward achieving wealth, the fact that he could never be equal to Daisy socially, and Daisy's own stubbornness towards social classes, Gatsby underwent the corruption of the American Dream.
When Gatsby first met Daisy, he knew that if he wanted to keep her he would need to become rich. Gatsby's focus became completely overtaken by that one goal, wealth. His zealousness to achieve wealth brought about his corruption...