The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music-epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night-resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.

The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. This shows the unique style the author uses to give the reader an emotional connection to the protagonist of the story.On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. In a sort of panic, he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up a picture of the waters lapping on Sherry Island and the moonlit veranda, and the gingham on the golf-links and the dry sun and the gold color of her neckвЂ™s soft down (Fitzgerald). In this case Dexter Green who experiences many emotional events. The author is trying to explain that the way вЂњWinter DreamsвЂќ is written gives the feeling of an emotional connection to the main character of the story. вЂњThe style in which these tragedies are told is one of the most famous in American literature: A brilliant, sensuous, lyrical prose that recreates a sense of emotional ecstasy (Witkoski). The story is a tragedy which creates a sense of an emotional feeling. Hope is lost and that they cannot achieve it вЂ¦show more contentвЂ¦ Scott Fitzgerald in вЂњWinter DreamsвЂќ illustrates a unique style of how the story is written. Dexter GreenвЂ™s dream of achieving Judy becomes dead after he realizes he could never achieve the вЂњGolden girl.вЂќ Fitzgerald is explaining how people try and reach for the American dream, but do not always succeed into achieving it. Everyone talks about how good-looking Judy Jones is to show their desire to obtain the American dream. Fitzgerald is expressing the idea of the American dream, how everyone wants it but cannot always achieve it. Turing those cow eyes on every calf in townвЂќ said Mr. Hedrick contemptuously, вЂњShe always looks like she wanted to be kissed. The author is suggesting that her social status and beauty is above everyone else, and is what everyone wants but cannot have. The author is showing how вЂњThe Golden GirlвЂќ Judy Jones is like the American dream because of wealth and the challenge to reach it. The quote means that Dexter lost his hope and motivation to chasing his dream of вЂ¦show more contentвЂ¦ вЂњIn her wealth social status and beauty, she symbolizes the golden girl embodiment of the American dreamвЂќ (LaHood). Fitzgerald adds вЂњHe had just lost something more, as surely as if he had married Judy Jones and seen her fade away before his eyes.

Which in the story it plays a big role since DexterвЂ™s main goal is to be with Judy Jones.

Green is symbolic because it is used to describe money and hope. The author is trying to express the symbolic connection to green with Dexter. вЂњDexter is associated with green through the golf courses, the money he earns, youthful naivete and hopeвЂќ (LaHood). Show More F Scott FitzgeraldвЂ™s вЂњWinter DreamsвЂќ includes many types of symbols such as colors to represent different feelings, or to foreshadow what is next to come.

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