Maryam Ashraf2025-11-212025-11-212021https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11346Great American novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a perfect epitome of American Dream, reflecting the era of the 1920s after World War I when people began to dream of success, wealth and pursuit of happiness through social mobility. The dream of the future (American Dream) was the consequence of Capitalism, which brought materialism with it. The research is conducted with the support of the literary work of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ along with Karl Marx’s theory of ‘Capitalism’. The research aims to analyze how materialistic approaches can no longer advance humanity within the context of the novel The Great Gatsby. The objective of the research is to explore the attitudes of numerous characters, from different socioeconomic classes, which are the corroboration of the theory of Capitalism. The aim of the research is to assess the scope of the dreams and desires of the characters within the context of the American Dream and the farfetched promises it entails. Using the Marxist approach, this research fills the gap in literature based on the theory of capitalism as it deals with the aspects of upward social mobility in the novel The Great Gatsby. Forthcoming researchers can question the idea of materialistic approach by exploring social mobility in literary works of other writers of American Literature. It is a qualitative research focusing on a grounded theory. It is not an interdisciplinary research.enThesis