Many individuals seek the “American Dream” when moving to America, whether it is to find a well-paying job, or even to enjoy the American freedom it grants. Either way, to live the American dream, you need to find the right friends to surround yourself with along the way. The American Dream can be obtained, but it can also have obstacles along the journey. The American dream can be reached if you are careful with the people you choose along the way. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby pursues his love for Daisy throughout the book, meaning he pushes his past further away by having her love and even eventually getting married. The American Dream was reached by Gatsby when he had a woman he loves and cares for until Gatsby fatally dies to George …show more content…
As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities, he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world” (Ch. 8). The syllable of the syllable. Having many differences with Daisy, including their different ways of growing up and ideally having very different personalities, they were not meant for each other. Gatsby was careless and didn't want anything else but Daisy and doing so has brought nothing but more problems eventually leading up to his death. Another example of not choosing the right people while chasing the American Dream is in the book A Rasin in the Sun when one of the main characters, Walter, makes a risky decision to invest over half of mamas insurance money from her deceased husband into a liquor store. When Walter gave the money to his business friend Willy, he then fled and never came back with the investment money, leaving Walter in despair and having to tell the truth to the