GG thesis

• Fitzgerald wrote the Great Gatsby on the French Rivera, a land of prosperity that perhaps inspired the extravagance of the wealth in the novella.

  However, it was his experience of grand parties on Long Island that drove him to write the book and depict the corruption he experienced first hand in society's UC, with those who appear to have achieved Americas Dream status.
• Fitzgerald aims to shine light on the corrupt class system in America that meant 'greatness' is a shiny bubble that moves and allures the observer, eventually popping, dissipating into nothing (the unfulfillment of the American Dream)
• Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby with the intentions of creating the great American novel, whilst it was a failure in his lifetime after his death it became just this: standing as an elegy of the corruption of the class division in contemporary America and the chase of the American Dream that paralyzes America's morality.
• Fitzgerald highlights the failures of the AD through the lives of his characters, providing an insight into the individuals living in the roaring 20s, where they chase the fantasy of wealth and status wrapped up in the idea of the 'American Dream.'
• Daisy is a modern woman in her opposition to family, her child and her affair
• Fitzgerald deals with the society dealing with the post war conditions, starting with an entire nation to a family to an individual.
• Money is identified as the main cause of the death of the American Dream (Gatsby). It becomes easily tangled up in the anticipation and achievement filling the AD with materialism.