In The Great Gatsby, one of the predominant themes is the death of thee American dream. In this, F. Scott Fitzgerald is showing how the American dream has become corrupt and that the dream is dead.. The Great Gatsby took place in the roaring twenties. A time when man no longer found happiness in simple pleasures like he did once such as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This is when the first breakdown …showed first 75 words of 536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 536 total…and leisure came upon us. This was the roaring twenties. People Cherished material things, not ideals that were thought to stand for something greater. And it was Fitsgerald dying as he wrote this book because he was the only one who recognized the falsity the American dream had become. An over analyzed motto that no one could touch but only look at passed over in the early eighteen hundreds and and idealized ever since then.