How Does Gatsby Represent The American Dream

Fitzgerald's novel is
often seen as a commentary on the corruption of the American Dream. Immorality, superficiality
and bad behavior are all characteristics of the upper classes in the novel yet the aspiration to
be upper class - to have everything and have fun too - is not directly questioned by thein the
novel (with the partial exception of ). 

It may be helpful here to note that
the novel was written as a , loosely based on the Roman satirical figure Trimalchio, a man who
dresses up to be rich. 

Fitzgerald
wrote   in the form of a satire, a criticism of...