d “Crazy Sunday” because it is the only day off that the actors had during the depression, and it was also a day when actors and writers were not obligated to their boss’ wishes or demands. So it was the only day in which Joel could see Stella and make love to her so that he could avoid any kind of punishment from her husband, Miles, Joel’s boss. Stella still loves Miles though because when she finds out that he dies, she says that she still loves him and she cannot accept the fact that she died. She feels that she has lost her sense of security when Miles dies and she cannot accept that. So, now she feels helpless because she cannot make her husband jealous anymore. To compensate for that, Stella temporarily pretends that Miles is not dead which confuses dream and reality with Joel. Even though Stella was cheating on Miles, she still loved him very much. Therefore, Joel does not achieve the American Dream because he realizes that Stella does not love him at all and at that point in his career he had no personal success, but maybe later on he will. Joel was an outsider in the story just as Gordon was in “May Day.” Throughout Fitzgerald’s fiction the underlying theme of the American Dream is portrayed as a goal which is more of a nightmare than a dream. He shows this from his writings in the Jazz Age, where people where much more inclined to be in love with their money and their possessions rather than loving their mate. He tried to show people their mistakes if they took the path they chose. For example, in “Crazy Sunday” he shows the grip that money has a hold on people through Gordon. Gordon was once an insider, but since he became an outsider he lost a grip on his sense of reality because he could not accept the fact that he did not have any money. So, he becomes a very miserable soul because he let the possessions that he wants posses him.As for the writing he did d...
