Julia Matveev Gomez English III 5/1/24 Gatsby and His Misunderstood American Dream Every American and immigrant's dream was to live in America and thrive with their family in a prosperous and great country. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby, busily attempts to fulfill the American Dream by illegally earning a large fortune, hopefully gaining a high social status, and obsessively striving to reunite with his first love. His corrupt understanding of the American Dream demonstrates a materialistic and flawed view of happiness. With Gatsby subconsciously thinking that the world would turn in his favor, he realizes too late that money wouldn’t resolve what he desperately wanted. Gatsby’s rise to fame …show more content…
Throughout this book section, Gatsby's parties are described as bustling and the atmosphere is lively since so many came, although uninvited. On the outside, the parties hosted by Gatsby seem like he enjoys having people over and party at his wondrous mansion, he has the money and time to host them which meant that people would love Gatsby as well as his parties; They were given the most lavish items and the people immersed themselves into his rich world. But Gatsby himself wasn’t all that present in the atmosphere itself, Nick begins, “‘This is an unusual party for me. I haven’t seen the host. I live over there. and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation. For a moment, he looked at me as if he failed to understand. ‘I’m Gatsby,’ he said suddenly. ‘I thought you knew, old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host’” (47-48). It was odd how Gatsby invited Nick to his party for the first time, and yet Nick never even knew what his face looked