The American Dream is a symbol of hope and opportunity inspiring people to pursue their dreams and become successful in America. This is a topic that was talked about in both books, “The Great Gatsby” and “A Raisin in the Sun.” Not everyone is able to achieve this dream. In the book, “The Great Gatsby” Gatsby tries to achieve his dream by becoming wealthy to win back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. He throws parties and surrounds himself with luxury all to impress Daisy.
F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, explores the idea of the pursuit of dreams and the unattainable desire to recreate the past. People everywhere are motivated by similar dreams that give them meaning to the things they do. Gatsby builds his life around his dreams and they shape his identity while also holding him back from true greatness. He is obsessed with this dream and like many people, can only see that it won’t work out after he has already devoted so much to it.
Everyone has a dream that want to be rich by succeeding in their life, which is most people dreaming which most people call American Dream. The American Dream that is described in “The Great Gatsby” is one of materialism. The American Dream of the 1920s was characterized by genuine success, social status, and the openness of personal freedom. Because of this, the Gatsby was symbolizing the American Dream.
Introduction The Great Gatsby is written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald who is the most famous chronicler of America in 1920s, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” The book reveals the disillusion of American dream through the love story between Gatsby and Daisy. In this book, what Gatsby cared about was only Daisy, and even he died for Daisy. It seems that Gatsby loves Daisy very much.
The famous poet mia Angelo once said "The American dream is only a dream". Firstly, Gatsby is a man of wonder and his fascination with his concept of the American dream. Throughout the story Gatsby show how his dream turns out to be artificial. In the great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates that the American dream is only a source of false reality reflecting on appearance.
The american dream is what brought everyone to this country, the dream that if they worked hard enough that they to could be rich and have everything that they ever desired. This idea brought thousands of people but how much evil is done to achieve what is desired. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about the chase for the American Dream and reveals the corruption that comes along with that chase and is demonstrated through the characterization of Gatsby and Myrtle, the symbolism of the yellow objects, and the setting of the Valley of Ashes. Jay Gatsby has one goal in life, one dream that he has based his whole life on accomplishing, and that is winning Daisy back. He realises that daisy is attracted to the wealth and luxuriant lifestyle.
The American Dream in the book “The Great Gatsby” is portrayed in a way that is not achievable. The only way you would be able to get it is if , in Gatsby's case , to go the illegal route. While in Toms case, you come from very old money and somehow have buckets of it. So, Gatsby was trying to get daisy to love him in order to have the life he wants. So it’s not the typical american dream, it is his own idea of what he wants his life ,so his version american dream .
According to Source A, Gatsby is in pursuit of the American Dream; however, his dream is the personification of the love of his life, Daisy. This reveals that Gatsby had all the wealth he could ask for and therefore he only dreamed of obtaining the unobtainable. Source A states, “Gatsby fails to win over Daisy, he also fails to achieve his version of the American Dream.” In other words, the portrayal of the American Dream through Jay Gatsby proves that despite putting in all the effort, a vast majority of people do not always achieve their American Dream.
Overall the American dream is the pursuit of goals. However, those goals are different for everyone. In the book The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s goal was to make something of himself and get Daisy, the girl of his dreams. Gatsby did achieve his dream of making something of himself, even if he did make his money illegally.
Gatsby’s American Dream is ultimately to reunite with Daisy Buchanan; Daisy poses as a physically representation of Gatsby’s dream. Gatsby originates from a humble background, being the son of poor laborers from North Dakota, and rises to be very prosperous, only for his dream to die in the end, literally. Within the regular American Dream, people accomplish their goals through genuine hard work, but in Gatsby’s position, he immediately earns the most of his money by participating in crime. Gatsby does attempt the hard work appeal, through his years of employment to Dan Cody, but this doesn’t go well since Cody’s ex-wife winds up with the whole inheritance. Therefore Gatsby turns to crime instead, and manages to reach his desired worth.
The American Dream is the idea that anyone of any race, class, gender, or nationality can be successful in if they work hard enough for it. Gatsby is someone on the lower economic or social class and works hard for the prosperity and wealth. With his hard work, he got the money, a car, a big house, and nice clothes and that shows that his American Dream of becoming rich was successful. That also shows that he changed his social class, but he wants to make Daisy his and get a higher status. Most people ,like Daisy and Tom, only have one dream and that is to have fun or have a peaceful, happy life.
The American Dream was not attained in The Great Gatsby by the character Gatsby because all the things he did was to be with Daisy Buchanan but in the end, it became worthless as a result of him not being with her. Before he went off to the war he fell in love with this woman named Daisy, but Gatsby could not stay long with her because of the war Daisy, however, did not wait till he came back from the war and she married a man named Tom who was wealthy and available something Gatsby was not “In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at
The American Dream is the opportunity to become successful with hard work and initiative. Gatsby himself achieves the American dream of success just to impress the love of his life, Daisy
Throughout The Great Gatsby, the idea of the American Dream is portrayed and connected to the dream Gatsby longs for in his relationship with Daisy, as he faces the conflicts of time and money that combat and challenge his
The American dream has been a fixture in American lives for decades. In The Great Gatsby, Jay pines after Daisy because she is his American dream. Obtaining her love and lifelong companionship will give him everything he could ever need. The American dream is the idea of financial success and happiness. Without
