Summary:
The American Dream is a common definition for success, comfort, happiness, wealth and the wish to succeed, and many Americans achieve this dream by simply finding true love, raising a family, and having a property that is theirs to their comfort. The novel, The Great Gatsby, is a prime reference on the American dream.
The American Dream is a common definition for success, comfort, happiness, wealth and the wish to succeed, and many Americans achieve this dream by simply finding true love, raising a family, and having a property that is theirs to their comfort. The novel, The Great Gatsby, is a prime reference on the American dream. The characters are all striving for the American Dream, with some minor differences. The characters in the novel are wealthy, well standing people in society. In the novel, Gatsby once a poor man is a shining example of a character that is making an unrest attempt to achieve the American dream.
The American Dream can not be defined by one person. In the novel, all the characters except for Nick; are trying to reach this life of happiness and success. To reach their goals, they have to work to be good standing in the society, and meet their own desires such as love. In the American dream, they all wish to succeed in everything they do, and get caught up in a life with no difference, like the white room and dresses that Daisy and her friends are in.
The character Gatsby is the strongest achiever of the American Dream of them all. People strongly believe they can buy happiness with money. Gatsby grows up his life in poverty, with little to show and thus joins the army to make a hero of himself. As he is heading out to war he meets Daisy; a rich well to do lady with society watching her. They fall in love as Gatsby is sent to Europe and she moves on dating many more officers. When she meets a man named Tom, Daisy marries him for his wealth and well standing. This right here is the American dream for Daisy as she is soaring to new heights.
Gatsby returns and soon notices that he has to make something of himself to prove he is in high standing. After getting a tremendous amount of money in a not so just business, Gatsby purchases his estate on the shore of West Egg so he could see Daisy far away in East Egg. Here is another example of the American Dream, leisurely purchasing this mansion to fill all his needs.
With all of his parties and attempts to show Daisy and society that he is well to do, people take advantage of him. Later on Daisy sees he is a high standing man and falls back in love with him. Gatsby has achieved his American Dream to be "happy" however is soon blown away with the consequences of his actions that he did to get there.
The Great Gatsby is mainly focused on showing the American Dream and what people will do to get it. The whole novel is a timeline on how the process works in some lives to achieve this dream. The result of this pursuit is that their minds are only set on the big and fancy things; missing the small things such as true love along the way. Each and every character is attempting to reach the American dream in The Great Gatsby.
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