...twentieth-century novel, The Great Gatsby, is a critical novel about the great American Dream of the 1920’s. The story is about Jay Gatsby’s quest for Daisy Buchanan. The novel was written in 1925 and was a line of connection between the era of World War I in the 1920s and the Great Depression of the early 1930s. Fitzgerald participated in the lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties attending wild parties and finding and consuming his share of the bootleg liquor.
Although he participated in the lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald was also critical of the times. Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby is a depiction of the 1920s society to fail to live up to their potential – their failure to acquire the American Dream. It is also an illustration of the wanton waste of a generation of Americans who focused on the extravagance of wealth and privilege and did little to promote...