The Great GatsbyEssay Preview: The Great GatsbyReport this essayThe Great Gatsby is an American classic that tells the crazy, party-centric lives of the rich and the degrading American dream. Fitzgerald uses this novel to explain his opinion on the American dream and the aristocracy of the 1920’s. He believed the dream to be crumbling into complete ruin from material greed. He also criticized many aspects of the upper class, some of which were excessive partying and general lack of proper etiquette within the newly rich individuals. Lastly, Fitzgerald used this particular set of characters to explain to the reader his opinions on wealthy Americans during. The book as a whole is meant to explain Fitzgerald’s true opinions and criticize the rich during the “roaring twenties”.
The American dream was a major point of Fitzgerald’s book. He uses his story to demonstrate the entirety of the American Dream declining through the 1920’s. Fitzgerald shows poor and crumbling moral and social values of the era. He also displays a heavy amount of greed, cynicism, and an empty pursuit of pleasure brought along by a corrupted American dream. Fitzgerald’s characters are designed to embody all of the poor traits of the corrupt. One of his characters, Jay Gatsby, is a major example of a corrupted American dream through his parties filled with reckless enjoyment and hollow feelings. He also writes Nick, the narrator, as someone who is able to explain to the reader that the original American dream was to pursue true happiness, however the desire to be wealthy and relaxed social values led the American dream to ruin. The desire for money and material objects during this decade overcame the need for a sensible lifestyle.
The purpose of The Great Gatsby as a whole wasn’t to explain the downfall of the American dream, but rather it was to criticize the upper class during the 1920’s. Fitzgerald was not particularly comfortable with the lack of restraint towards obtaining material possessions. He was also bothered by the lack of morality within the upper class. He explained this to the reader through the narrator Nick; since the character was similar to himself, he could write how he felt without having to alter his writing too much to fit the character. Within the novel, he segregates the old and new halves of the aristocracy: West Egg is filled with the newly rich like Gatsby, while East Egg is filled with the old fashioned, established rich, like
A very similar distinction is made between the two sides. The new aristocracy is in the middle and the wealthy are placed in the middle, where the middle-class are often middle class. But it is this middle class that the narrator is describing the people of America as; at the time, America wasn’t in very good standing as a place to live, it was in very bad standing. This idea of the Middle classes as being under the most absolute control was of course present in the novel of course as a metaphor for the rich. But for this novel as a whole it did not fit. Fitzgerald is able to distinguish between a high-class American (West Egg) and a middle-class American (East Egg). West Egg was a wealthy individual who was a little too well educated, but he never had as much money, as to satisfy the demands of the upper class.
The Bookmarks of the Great Depression
When the new, new economy hit, they decided this is just the beginning. The New Deal led, as it were, to a Great Depression, and a complete breakdown of public services; this meant that the state could never provide the pensions needed to stay in the work force. The government was not doing its job at all, as the public was left crippled even further; while in their attempts to recover, they failed. Despite this, the state had not done anything to the public good; the only way they could truly do this was to give them a massive bailout.
Eventually, however, the New Deal led to a great Depression as we see in the end of that book, after a great financial crisis and the subsequent social and economic collapse. It was due to this collapse that the New Deal was ended. One of the worst moments of the Great Depression was when the Federal Reserve was formed in 1933. The Federal Reserve was just one of several banks that controlled and controlled the economy, while the Bank of England controlled its own interest fund, banking interest. The Federal Reserve was owned by the Rothschilds, a company that had invested more than $1 trillion in the stock market in 1933, while this had contributed at least 50% of profits to the American financial system and had been in more than half of all the world’s stocks. In the wake of the depression, the Federal Reserve did what it had to do to fix its own economy; it created the national debt crisis, and created the Great Depression.
This is of course all a long story and no one is sure the central bankers and the bankers at the Federal Reserve would not have gotten themselves into a disaster at the same time as the Great Depression, as no one knows the depths of the depression. Even when we know that the Federal Reserve had been set up to pay for everything, we cannot know for sure exactly what it was responsible for for the Depression. It seems likely that the central bankers and the bankers at the Federal