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THE GREAT GATSBY     This novel is ab come to the fore the American 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 discipline that fitzgerald has made a relation with his and Gatsbys life. This can be seen in many different ways such as fitzgerald attended Yale college for a guile 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. Also Fitzgerald wanted to become a football game game player and I think that tom was another character by Fitzgerald that he wanted to be like. For tom was a big x football player who was loaded. Fitzgerald as a boy dreamed of becoming a football hero. Football was also one of Fitzgeralds earliest attractions at Princeton University. Fitzgerald tried out for the Princeton freshman team but was cut within the first week. As a successful professional Fitzgerald tran slated his love of the game into two Saturday Evening piazza stories.     This novel is filled with multiple 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 traffic with organized offence 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 people have all the money.     The thought of repeating the past. Gatsbys whole being since going off to war is devoted to getting fundament 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 justly across the bay from where she lives. He expresses this desire by reaching towards the green light on her porch early in the book. The last paragraph, So we beat on, boats against the current, innate(p) back ceaselessl y 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 friend and literary rival once commented that "poor Scott Fitzgerald" was "wrecked" by his "romanticist awe" of the rich.