How far do you consider Gatsby to be the epitome of the American Dream and its failure?

The Great Gatsby is a book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in the nineteen twenties in the unique narrative style which is that he is writing about a fictional character called Nick Carraway writing a book about a man called Jay Gatsby who he feels was a man " who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.

Gatsby is a very rich yet contradictory character, He is portrayed throughout the novel as being heroic person because during the war her received a medal from "every allied country" the medal symbolizes some of the best and most noble traits of human nature such as valour, honor and bravery but in an extreme case of dramatic irony such a heroic man he cannot raise the courage to engage Daisy. Another side of Gatsby's contradictory nature is the idealistic way he chases Daisy as well as the fulfillment of his dream yet he is extremely reckless in the way he confronts Tom and lets Tom release the figurative ghosts that are Gatsby's past life especially h...