The Great Gatsby focuses on money and the advantages of being rich, individual dependence on money for morals and choices, the ideal of an absolute society based on the values of the rich.
Karl,
Yes, I saw it and although I don't like to use such excuses, its my laptop. It's the most expensive I have so far bought and it's a nightmare.
I cannot find an edit for the question itself so I will delete the question entirely, if I can.
Found it and did it. Also, apart from this diabolical and expensive machine my deteriorating eyesight.
The Great Gatsby offers enduring insights into American society, values, and identity that remain relevant today. The novel highlights the persistent class divisions and the illusion of social mobility. Modern America still grapples with economic inequality and the idea that anyone can succeed with enough effort. The novel suggests that the pursuit of happiness can lead to disillusionment and moral decay, prompting reflection on whether modern pursuits align with genuine fulfillment! The Great Gatsby serves as a mirror to American ideals, aspirations, and contradictions, making it a timeless lens through which to examine the present American experience.
Stephen,
Yes, but mainly the pursuit of material based happiness and he illusion of love from others as the foundation for happiness.
Although this is considered a side issue normally but the emptiness of 'love' situations is also important as the main female characters emphasis money and position. In modern America money seems to be everything, especially in the world Trump is creating. But the illusions and concern with superficiality has always been lurking in American society. Moby Dick is an illusion of conquest with emphasis undefeatable foe, one to be surmounted through death. Substituting spirituality for materiality. Manifest Destiny equalling overcoming other races through force, indicated within the migrancy situations of the present.
The American present through The Great Gatsby reveals enduring themes of inequality, the illusion of the American Dream, and moral emptiness beneath material wealth; it remains a potent lens to examine social ambition, class divides, and the cultural costs of unfettered capitalism.
Chuck, and the danger the US continuously faces to the American dream (ok, no more than material advancement) by the playing with life of the couples, superficiality in relationships, and the belief that money maketh the man, and woman.
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