Untouchable Dream
The Untouchable Dream When the early settlers traveled to America, they had no beacon to guide them. ... Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, uses the title character’s skewed motives and glittering but unachievable dreams to mock the prevalent corruption of the American dream. Jay Gatsby lives in a dream world. ... As a young boy growing up in North Dakota, James Gatz dreamed the American dream. ... After meeting Daisy, however, he creates a dream world that never even existed in its entirety. ... Nick, acting as the voice of Fitzgerald, comments that the dream of the past that he chased so intently was “already behind him”(182). ... Gatsby’s dream is utterly unattainable, and he gets lost in it, unable to appreciate the things he has gained that might have provided joy for him. ... Fitzgerald saw the disillusionment and corruption that Gatsby experiences reflected in the materialistic American dream of the 1920’s, and he hated it.