Extra Credit Blog week 10

For my research paper I have chosen to write about The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. I chose it because of the obvious theme of materialism throughout the story and the negative impacts as a result of that materialism. This book has been called one of the best examples of The American Dream gone wrong. I wanted to explore why that dream went wrong in the book and why the author chose to write it that way. It is not the typical happy ending type of story and that has been one of the characteristics about it that has drawn people to study it over the years. I’m going to assume the question is “Would I have chosen this book at the beginning of the class rather than at the end?”. I would rather do it at the end now that we have studied these types of materials and have more knowledge about the subject.