2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American novelist — author of The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and This Side of Paradise — who captured the Jazz Age and the American Dream's corruption with more stylistic precision than any contemporary — whose career ended in alcoholic decline in Hollywood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel — narrated by Nick Carraway — tracing Jay Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy Buchanan and the American Dream's corruption by old money — the most taught American novel and the canonical text on the American Dream.