The Great Gatsby: Connection to Puritanism

      In my last post about my connections with "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I mentioned that I saw a connection to the puritans writing characteristic. However, I mainly stayed on topic on how i dreamed to achieve the same life as Jay Gatsby. Then I thought, "who would not want to live like Gatsby?" that is sadly, (because i should have realized it sooner) when I realized that Fitzgerald's novel is about the American Dream, A new idea brought to America by the Puritans. 

     The American dream is this ideal sense of material wealth in not only in the economy, but the opportunity, and prosperity America gives its citizens. In Jay Gatsby's case he worked hard and made bucket loads of money. This money gave him a higher social status. Then, this higher social status yielded Gatsby to become powerful, and he owes it all to the puritans.