Analysis of Corruption in Nick Carraway of the Great Gatsby. Essays on Literary Works - 0 views
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the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal of security into a convoluted scheme of materialistic power.
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Jay Gatsby, who epitomizes the purest characteristic of the American Dream: everlasting hope.
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depravity of the modern dream to wealth, privilege, and the void of humanity that those aspects create. Money is clearly identified as the central proponent of the dream's destruction; it becomes easily entangled with hope and success, inevitably replacing their places in the American Dream with materialism.
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Discusses the conversion and corruption of the American dream, which becomes more materialistic and greedy than ever. Even Gatsby, the eternal optimist, an archetypal dreamer, makes his fortunes through underhanded, sneaky ways with his partner Wolfsheim.
