Gatsby as theGreat American Dream Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, is based on the dreams of a man named Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel, it is suggested to the reader that Gatsby is a symbol for America. He represents the possibilities of life on a level at which the material and the spiritual have been confused (Bewley 11). Gatsby's dreams, lifestyle and sense of morality represent an American vision of life at which the reality …showed first 75 words of 704 total…

…showed last 75 words of 704 total…Heartless people crush dreams, lifestyles are destroyed by green-eyed monsters, and morals exist in only in those who don't have ambitions. It's what Charles Darwin would call survival of the fittest, or only the strong survive. America, it's a jungle out there. Bibliography Works Cited Bewley, Marius. " Criticism of America". The University of the South, 1954. Burgess, Anthony. "Is America Falling Apart?", The New York Times, 1971. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner Fiction, 1995.