This Research, paper – which is a mixture of a book review and an analysis of a problem - will present ideas about searching the American Dream in connection with The Great Gatsby and the main characters and how succesfully they could live the American Dream according to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Moreover, this research paper will be about some interesting symbols by Fitzgerald. Also, it will give some general information about the author, and the story itself. Could the characters live in peace with their own lives? Could they enjoy the outcome of ther own decisions? Could they live or did they find the American Dream?
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Sept 24, 1896-Dec 21, 1940) was an american author, who wrote several famous novels, which are the works of the Jazz Age. He has many important novels, such as The Beautiful and Damned, This Side of Paradise, Tender is the Night, but – of course – his most famous work is The Great Gatsby, which also has several film adaptations already. People say, that this work has some biographical aspects of Fitzgerlad’s life. The Great Gatsby was firstly published in 1925 by Scribner’s in New York. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald )
According to James Truslow Adams, the American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." (in his book: The Epic of America, written