Great Gatsby and the American Dream
Bobbie Gordon Ms Newman Essay: The Great Gatsby What is the reader’s first impression of Tom Buchanan in Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”? ... Their main role within the novel is to depict how the richer classes of commercialised America, are unfulfilled citizens and therefore do not accomplish the “American Dream”. Tom Buchanan is a character in “The Great Gatsby”, whose personality and literal description, depicts this sort of unfulfilled, extravagant character. ... Tom stereotypically fits the mould of the “All American, white male” who’s life is based leisure and his family, but through irony, this life of leisure that he leads prevents Tom from really reaching the ideology of the “American Dream”. ... Fitzgerald also pays great attention to detail when describing the scene.