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THE considerable GATSBY     This novel is about the Ameri stop dream or rather the dreams of F. Scott Fitzgeralds. In the novel The Great Gastby notes on the careless and moral deteariation of the twenties. It is clear that fitzgerald has make a relation with his and Gatsbys life. This can be seen in legion(predicate) different ways such as fitzgerald attended Yale college for a craft then went off to be in the army. In The Great Gatsby the timber Gatsby went to Oxford then left to go to the army. Also Fitzgerald wanted to become a football player and I think that tom was another cite by Fitzgerald that he wanted to be like. For tom was a defective x football player who was rich. Fitzgerald as a boy imagine of becoming a football hero. Football was also one of Fitzgeralds early attractions at Princeton University. Fitzgerald tried out for the Princeton freshman team but was subvert within the first week. As a successful professional Fitzgerald translated his hunch over of the game into two Saturday Evening Post stories.     This novel is filled with tenfold themes but the predominate one focuses on the death of the American Dream. This can be explained by how Gatsby came to get his fortune. Through his dealings with organized disgust he didnt hold to the American Dream guidelines. Nick also suggests this with the trend in which he talks about all the rich characters in the story. The immoral people have all the money.     The thought of repeating the past. Gatsbys self-coloured being since going off to war is devoted to getting impale together with Daisy and have things be the way they were before he left. Thats wherefore Gatsby got a house like the one Daisy used to live in right across the bay from where she lives. He expresses this desire by gain towards the green light on her porch early in the book. The last paragraph, So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaseless ly into the past reinforces this.      Fitzgerald was in his twentys when he wrote this novel and since he went to Princeton he was considered a spokesman for his generation. He wrote about the immorality that was besieging the 1920s. Organized crime ran rampant, people were partying all the time, and affairs were parking area play. The last of which Fitzgerald portrays well in this novel.      Ernest Hemingway Fitzgeralds friend and literary rival at once commented that "poor Scott Fitzgerald" was "wrecked" by his "romantic awe" of the rich.