fulfill the American Dream. This is because he may have believed that many people in his generation loved money more than androgynous couples loved each other. He felt that money did not buy happiness, it only enhanced it. In addition, he also tried to tell people through his writing to try and not let your possessions possess you. He wrote about all of these things because he felt that people were losing a grip on their sense of reality.One story that Fitzgerald wrote in the Jazz Age, in which the American Dream plays a significant role in, is a story he wrote in 1920, called “May Day.” This story takes place in May of 1919, when the last of the soldiers came back from World War I. It involves the “friendship” between Phillip Dean and Gordon Sterrett. This story also involves the relationship between Gordon and his girlfriend Jewel (which is such an ironic name because she is not a Jewel at all). The main purpose of the story is to show the bad effects in chasing the American Dream. There is Gordon a very depressed man with no future, who is being blackmailed into marriage by Jewel. The “friendship” between Gordon and Dean is not a friendship at all. Fitzgerald is trying to show that Dean, who is very successful, does not want to be associated with Gordon, who is a disease in Dean’s eyes. He shows us this when they are both in the room discussing Gordon’s situation. Gordon asks for money and Dean disgusted with Gordon throws five dollars at Gordon. This in turn makes Gordon unwanted in Dean’s world because it is symbolized by the “IN” and “OUT” signs worn by Peter and Dean towards the end of the story. This is hard for Gordon to accept because he used to be a part of the “IN” crowd, but now he is an outsider. So, later on in the story Gordon became drunk at the party that was at Delmonico’s and he was so drunk he eventually ...
