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THE GREAT GATSBY     This novel is approximately the Ameri target trance or rather the dreams of F. Scott Fitzgeralds. In the novel The Great Gastby notes on the imprudent and moral deteariation of the twenties. It is clear that fitzgerald has made a relation with his and Gatsbys life. This can be seen in many different managements such as fitzgerald attended Yale college for a wile then went off to be in the army. In The Great Gatsby the character Gatsby went to Oxford then left to go to the army. in any case Fitzgerald wanted to become a footb all(prenominal) player and I ideate that tom was another character by Fitzgerald that he wanted to be like. For tom was a big x football player who was rich. Fitzgerald as a boy dreamed of becoming a football hero. football game was also ane of Fitzgeralds earliest attractions at Princeton University. Fitzgerald tried out for the Princeton catechumen team but was cut within the first week. As a successful profess ional Fitzgerald translated his love of the game into two Saturday Evening government agency stories.     This novel is filled with multiple themes but the predominate one focuses on the death of the American ideate. This can be explained by how Gatsby came to get his fortune. finished his dealings with organized crime he didnt hold to the American Dream guidelines. Nick also suggests this with the manner in which he talks about all the rich characters in the story. The immoral mess have all the money.     The thought of repeating the past. Gatsbys whole being since going off to state of war is devoted to getting back together with Daisy and have things be the way they were before he left. Thats why 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 reaching towards the green light on her porch earlyish in the book. The last paragraph, So we beat on, boats against the current, born back incessantly 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 common play. The last of which Fitzgerald portrays well in this novel.      Ernest Hemingway Fitzgeralds adept and literary rival once commented that "poor Scott Fitzgerald" was "wrecked" by his " wild-eyed awe" of the rich.