"THE GREAT GATSBY" ESSAY "The Great Gatsby ", besides being a great literary piece, is a metaphor for a whole society, the American society. As well, as a cliché: "The party was over", which signifies a level of prophetic vision within the American society and its history. An essential part of this American characteristic of the novel, and its historicity, is about the American Dream. The dream At the center of how Gatsby is a metaphor …showed first 75 words of 706 total…

…showed last 75 words of 706 total…party was over" comes to be a prophetic vision, since it saw the American decadence because of this lavishness and bad use of resources during a decade, before it happened. In conclusion, the cliché "The party was over" is a prophetic vision of the "Great Depression", which portrays the death of a society that is a metaphor to the tragedy of the Great Jay Gatsby, Believing that happiness can be attained with wealth and power.