Comparing The American Dream In The Great Gatsby's The Pursuit Of Happiness

What stops you from achieving your version of the “American Dream”? To answer that question, you first have to create a definition of the “American Dream”. Then figure out what is obstructing you from achieving it. How will you be keen to achieve this? What hardships might you face? Jay Gatsby was once a poor farm boy and is now a millionaire. Your definition could be love, happiness, or wealth, like Gastby’s dream. Unless you are handed your dream, the key to achieving your American Dream is resilience through the hardships you encounter. The hardships you face do not define you. A speech given by Suli Breezy, called “The American Dream (The Pursuit of Happiness”), conveys the point that some successful people weren’t always the successful people they are known as today.

During the speech, they state “I heard President Andrew Johnson was a tailor, George Washington was a surveyor, Herbert Hoover was an engineer, Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer, Hugh Jackman who plays Wolverine was a clown.” Those are examples of people who are known as the successful person that they became and not known as the person they once were. Furthermore, on not letting your hardships define you, Jay Gatsby was also known as the successful businessman he was and not the poor farmer boy that he used to be. He is the main character in the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel is about a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby who throws lavish parties for one specific person to notice him, Daisy Buchanan. He was in love with her, but she chose a more wealthy guy, Tom, to marry. Gatsby worked hard to be the guy she needed. During an argument between Tom and Gatsby, Gatsby says, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me” (Fitzgerald). This is Gatsby confessing to his old self, who was poor and not nearly as wealthy as he is