Everyone has an American Dream that can be achieved. Each person in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald had an American Dream. One specific person in the book was Gatsby himself. Throughout the Novel, Gatsby shows his love and passion for Daisy, which he wanted to have with her forever, but Gatsby had a few things that didn’t go his way. Despite the fact he was reunited with Daisy, Gatsby ultimately was not able to achieve the American Dream that he could find love and start a family even though Gatsby received the approval of Daisy saying she doesn’t love Tom. Gatsby truly never was able to achieve his American Dream with the biggest reason coming from his death. Gatsby had decided to use his pool for the first time all summer. Then when Nick came over, “their was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain . . . tracing . . . a …show more content…
A reason why Gatsby couldn’t just get Daisy to be with him is because she was married to Tom still. Then one day, Nick went to the Buchanans house for dinner with “Daisy [being his] second cousin . . . and [him knowing] Tom in college . . . her husband” (5-6). Nick knew that Daisy and Tom were married and he also knew them from Daisy being a part of his family and Tom in college. Gatsby then couldn’t be with Daisy, since he found out the information that she was married to Tom from Nick. After Gatsby knowing Daisy was married, he wanted to hear from Daisy that she never loved Tom and only loved him. Gatsby was then hit with the truth when Daisy told them that she did once love Tom. At first she told them she never loved Tom, but “even alone [she couldn’t] say [she] never loved Tom . . . it wouldn’t be true”(133). Daisy fully couldn’t even tell both of them that she never loved Tom because she once did love Tom. Gatsby couldn't believe that Daisy actually loved Tom once in her