2。 Literature Review

James Truslow Adams was a historian who has used “American Dream” for the first time in his published book The Epic of America in 1931。In his book, American dream is a place where you have ability; you can have a better life。 As he said：”This is a society and everyone can develop their dreams fully including Rich dream and Love dream。”(Malcolm 262)In his paper we can know that the American dream, which originated in Europe in nineteenth Century, it is a kind of religious belief。 It has been in the hearts of the American when it is mature。 He proposed that the American dream in The Great Gatsby made European find their dreams they have lost before。 Through his research, early American dream let people believe that if you are work hard enough, you can be successful, so that this society is equal, through their own efforts to obtain material success, the success of the spirit also followed it。

The Great Gatsby is a novel which stands for the disillusion of the American dream。 This novel is famous because its excellent literature structure and profound。 It also practical means deep moral and psychological insights。 Many people had been attracted by this novel, they choice to write many critical essays on the research and discussion on its exploration of the American dream from the perspective of traditional literary criticism。 For example, Malcolm Cowley is one of those writers。 He wrote an essay named what is the Meaning of the Jazz Age。 He said that “we don’t know what’s behind the jazz age just like Gatsby did not know that what he had lost just because he wants to get his Daisy。”(James 96)来;自]优Y尔E论L文W网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766-

Today we will pide it into two parts to analysis。 They are “Rich Dream” and “Love Dream”。 And this paper will analysis the reasons for the failure of Gatsby, the reasons will be pided into two parts to describe respectively, they are inpidual elements and socials elements。 Through the failure we can see the spiritual crisis of the contemporary society。