Casting Doubt Upon the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby' is set in the Jazz Age of America, the 1920s which have come to be seen as a bubble of extravagance and affluence which burst with the Wall Street Crash in 1929. Fitzgerald wrote the book in 1925, and in it he explores the fundamental hollowness which characterized the Age as he saw it, and casts doubt upon the very core of American national …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 947 total…advance herself to such a state but is unable to do so because American society is unequal, and the High Society is one which is born into, not achieved. What has happened to Jefferson's assertion that "all men are created equal"? In order to more fully explore what Fitzgerald is saying to us about America, we must look at Gatsby, who is in much sense acts almost as a personification of what America stands for.