Dangers Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

The American Dream is the hope and dream of reaching your desires and goals. This can come in the form of wealth and possibly love. This is shown in the novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald shows the dangers and the impossibility of the American Dream in his novel and he shows the dangers of achieving wealth, through Daisy and he shows how dangerous and impossible love is through Gatsby. To begin with, Fitzgerald shows the corruption and dangers of wealth in the novel. According to the novel, on pages 139-140, it states, “‘I love you now–isn’t that enough? I can't help what’s past.’ She began to sob helplessly. ‘I did love him once–but I loved you too.’” This shows she doesn't truly love Gatsby and it infers that she loved Tom for his money. If you truly love someone, you cannot love another person. It defeats the purpose of truly loving someone. It shows how she used to love Gatsby, but when

He has this false sense of hope, believing he can repeat the past, however he does not realize the true character of Daisy. Daisy believes wealth is more important than love, and Gatsby is too blindly in love with Daisy to see it. Another example of Gatsby being blindly in love with Daisy is at the end of the novel when he is overly confident that Daisy will call him and that she will go to Gatsby. He is a hundred percent sure Daisy will call him, believing she will want to go to Gatsby’s house and leave with Gatsby away from Tom. Also, Gatsby believes that Daisy never loved or barely loved Tom. It shows that he is way too confident in himself and he thinks highly of himself. He believes that Daisy never loved Tom, when in fact she said she loved Tom. Gatsby will not accept the truth that Daisy, the woman he is deeply in love with, loved someone other than him. It's what gets Gatsby killed, his arrogant idea that Daisy will never love anyone but