"The Image of American Dream in Frances Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby

Abstract

The outset of the twentieth century harbours within its events various changes on the political, cultural and social levels, besides the economic turnings that swept the world at that time. The early twenties have brought about newly appearing classes and trends within the European and American societies. This period is called as the Roaring Twenties of the twentieth century to denote the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture in the aftermath of World War I. The United States of America achieves a wide scope dominance on the world finance exchang-es. Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) addresses thoroughly the overall changing social and political issues of that era in Europe from a multi-dimension vision. The Great Gatsby (1925) is consid-ered Fitzgerald's best literary work. The novel tackles the Ameri-can dream idea during a critical era in modern age. The characters of the novel are from different classes and social backgrounds of the American Society. The real global success of the novel lies in its bestselling records and international applause, that the novel achieved on the global level amidst the cultural global arena. The novel makes a great success and translated to various languag-es. This research paper and based on the Psychoanalysis Criticism Theory tackles the illusion of the American Dream Image in the novel with critical analysis for the characters of the novel along-side their human reactions.