Francis Scott Fitzgerald and the “Inverted” American Dream
Francis Scott Fitzgerald and the “Inverted” American Dream

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to uncover the extent to which Francis Scott Fitzgerald epitomized or actually helped create not only the roaring twenties in America, but also the modern definition of the American Dream. His novels and short stories shed light on the corruption of this Dream, which has evolved from the hope of equal opportunities to a materialistically oriented world view. We have chosen to analyse four of Fitzgerald’s most acclaimed short prose texts in order to illustrate this point: “Babylon Revisited,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “The Ice Palace” and “Winter Dreams.”

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