Examples Of Aspiration In The Great Gatsby

The Elusive Dream: How Society and Circumstance Affect Aspiration in America.
Can aspiration truly be achieved by working hard and being morally correct?
This is what is represented in two astonishing texts known worldwide, which represent whether working hard and being morally right actually achieves aspiration towards the American Dream.

Dominic Millar discusses how Aspiration is represented by the wealthy class who are immoral and without aspirations in the Great Gatsby and Park Avenue.
Published 24/3/2023.
Do you have an aspiration that you set out to achieve by working hard and sticking towards it? Seeing how hard it is to our set dreams and goals in the 21st century peoples aspiration towards anything has decreased due

Throughout the book Gatsby’s aspiration is to obtain financial success and to win Daisy’s attention and love. This is differentiated to Tom as he doesn’t have an aspiration as he comes from old money, but instead he doesn’t want to lose Daisy to a low life fake Gatsby. In the book the quote “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. ‘You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” (Page) is used to show his aspiration of wanting Daisy, showing his optimism and delusion about what is possible in life. This represents that Gatsby has a clear Dream to be with Daisy positioning the audience to feel sorry for him as he had waited so long to be with her. Without an aspiration Tom will do anything to have Daisy even if that means going to extreme lengths. The quote “I found out what your ‘drug store’ were.” “He turned to us and spoke rapidly.”(Page) shows that Tom is jealous and anxious by feeling threatened by Gatsby positioning the audience to show Gatsby’s aspiration compared to

In the Great Gatsby the catchphrase “old sport” is used throughout the book such as “You’re selling bonds, aren’t you old sport? (Page) which is used by the wealthy to help manage and build his image as a man from Oxford. Similarly, when Gatsby mentions “I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition.” (Page) shows how Gatsby doesn’t need to work as hard as he presumably comes from old money. Lastly, it’s shown that the rich don’t work as hard to the poor when “They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrest fully wherever people played polo and were rich together.” (Page) showing that their rich and bored who are privileged people. This positions the audience to show that the rich don’t work as hard, and that they believe they are the best of people from coming from their background of old money that will help them in achieving their aspiration from their American