This presentation is about the fall down of American dream that depicted in The Great Gatsby.

1. WELCOME TO THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY

2. A presentation
on
fall of American dream as depicted in the great Gatsby

4. Presentedto
 Md. Obaidullah
 Lecturer
 Department of English
 Northern University of business and technology
Khulna
Presentedby
 Md. hafijur Rahman
 Id no: 23170230024
 Program: MAE
 Northern University of business and technology Khulna

5. The American Dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of race, class,
gender, or nationality, can be successful in America if they just work hard enough.
The American Dream thus presents a pretty rosy view of American society that
ignores problems like systemic racism and misogyny, xenophobia, and income
inequality. It also presumes a myth of class equality, when the reality is America
has a pretty well-developed class hierarchy.

7.  Chapter 1, places us in a particular year – 1922 – and gives us some background about
WWI. This is relevant, since the 1920s is presented as a time of hollow decadence among
the wealthy, as evidenced especially by the parties in Chapters 2 and 3. And as we mention
above, the 1920s were a particularly tense time in America.
 We also meet George and Myrtle Wilson in Chapter 2, both working class people who are
working to improve their lot in life, George through his work, and Myrtle through her affair
with Tom Buchanan.
 We learn about Gatsby’s goal in Chapter 4, to win Daisy back. Despite everything he owns,
including fantastic amounts of money and an over-the-top mansion, for Gatsby, Daisy is the
ultimate status symbol. So in Chapter 5, when Daisy and Gatsby reunite and begin an affair,
it seems like Gatsby could in fact achieve his goal.

9.  In Chapter 6, we learn about Gatsby’s less-than-wealthy past, which not only makes him
look like the star of a rags-to-riches story, it makes Gatsby himself seem like someone in
pursuit of the American Dream, and for him the personification of that dream is Daisy.
 However, in Chapters 7 and 8, everything comes crashing down: Daisy refuses to leave
Tom, Myrtle is killed, and George breaks down and kills Gatsby and then himself, leaving
all of the “strivers” dead and the old money crowd safe. Furthermore, we learn in those
last chapters that Gatsby didn’t even achieve all his wealth through hard work, like the
American Dream would stipulate – instead, he earned his money through crime.

10. • Daisy becomes the only important person in Gatsby’s life, and in his efforts to win her
love he becomes a careless person just the way she is.
• When Gatsby and Daisy hit Myrtle with the car, he isn’t even concerned about Myrtle; he
is just concerned about whether this will cause problems for Daisy.
• Gatsby’s quest for happiness through illegal and superficial means ultimately is the cause
of his death, and therefore the collapse of his American Dream.
• The focus of Daisy’s life was only on money instead of the value of someone's love.
• Daisy and Tom’s marriage symbolizes the new American dream. Here Daisy’s dream was
only money to lead a gorgeous life.
• Myrtle’s desire was to lead a luxurious life with wealth, love and money. In order to fulfil
her American dream she consequently changes herself which destroys her self values. This
dream lead her towards death.

11.  To fulfil Tom’s dream he killed Gatsby by the help of George B. Wilson and he get
Daisy forever.
 The dream of Gatsby was to gain a huge sum of wealth but after his death he has
nobody to look after this wealth.
 Gatsby arrange party to show off people how rich he is but it was worthless for him
because he has nobody to enjoy this enormous wealth after his death.
In the novel we can see everyone has dream and to fulfil their dream they are
willing to do any illegal activities. But by the death of Gatsby his American dream fall
down and we can see some others dream also fall down in other ways. In this way
American dream fall down in the novel The Great Gatsby.