![]() Their ubiquitous lack of empathy and understanding for the concerns of others, their downright brutality and self-centeredness pervades the whole storyline and gives prove of the author's rather pessimistic view of what was then going on in contemporary America. In the novel representatives of the upper class are engaged in acts of egotism, self-aggrandizement, and heartlessness. ![]() Fitzgerald's masterpiece primarily deals with the American upper class in the 1920s and demonstrates some of the internal processes of “high society." He took life by the throat and simultaneously pointed at social injustices that were accompanying the economic prosperity of his time. This seems to be the author's intention, when in a largely poetic tone he depicts life in the so-called “Roaring Twenties“. Robert Frost, a contemporary of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, once said that “poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.“ In Fitzgerald's fabulous novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, The Deconstruction of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby ![]() ![]() The Deconstruction of the American Dream in The Great Gatsbyĩ. ![]()
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