Nothingness of American Dream in The Great Gatsby

摘要

The Great Gatsby,the masterpiece by F.Scott Fitzgerald,outlines the protagonist Gatsby’go-go American Dream:its bud,strive,achievement and disappearance.Fantastic and dazzling as the dream is,this paper manages to disclose the horrible truth of American Dream in life:disillusion and destruction,only leaving the nothingness for people to crave in illusion and fantasy.