Confusion With the Real

During the 1920s, the U.S economy was booming. New technology made everyday life much easier than in the past and dreams could soon become realities for some people.. However, new technology that was developed could not prevent the nightmare that would end the “Roaring Twenties”. As the stock market crashed , people began to become disillusioned and put less trust in others and realized that the only one that one can trust is themselves. In the 1920s novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows that confusion with the reality of and the ideal never goes unpunished.
Fitzgerald depicts Jay Gatsby as a character who is disillusioned. Gatsby tries to retrieve everything that he had had prior to going to the war in Europe and he does not understand that it is utterly impossible to do. Gatsby believes “Cannot repeat the past? Well Of course you can! (pg 116). He thinks that with his newly acquired money, he can simply buy or take......

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Title: Gatsby
Approximate Word Count: 650
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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