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Abstract
The American culture is a flamboyant and influential culture for many who want to live a high
five rich and aristocratic life. The Jazz Age of 1920’s was the age of America which saw a period of
carefree hedonism, wealth, freedom and youthfulness in its society and popular culture. F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby concerns the life of Americans and their pleasure of money making and
dream life to live as a millionaire. The novel The Great Gatsby is considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum
opus, a masterpiece represented the American culture beautifully. The novel accords social upheavals of
the protagonist Gatsby, creating a portrait of Roaring Twenties as said a cautionary tale known as The
American Dream. In The Great Gatsby money makes world go around someone or something. It can buy
you all the yellow Rolls-Royces, gas blue dresses, nice shirts and all those branded things a rich man have
it or dream to have it. But in the end those things can’t buy us real happiness. Apparently none of the
characters in the novel are happy, either they are dissatisfied with marriage or with love or life and most
of all with themselves. They are not only just dissatisfied but instead they cause the havoc of trying to
make themselves happy which turns the table of a worse situation and end up even dead, of soul or of
body.