~American Dream~

The Great Gatsby’s funeral shows how breakable Fitzgerald thinks the American dream is. Looking at all of Gatsby’s “popularity” only about 4 people show up. Fitzgerald shows his belief on how fast the materialistic American dream can slip away.

~American Dream~

The minute that Gatsby had died we got to see how he is honestly viewed. Because now that he is dead & no one can mooch off of him anymore so no one cares about him. As we realize that few people honestly care about Gatsby we realize what people really saw him as, a rich giving show off so he could get what he wanted. He was a selfishly generous person.

~Colors~

Nick uses the green light at the end of the dock to represent the American dream. It is something that we try for & fail but we continuously pick ourselves back up & try again even harder than the first. Something that we cannot escape striving for because we want it so bad. As Nick says “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” No matter how many times the boat flips over we keep going & going & going.