In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is inadequate, the people who pursue it are dissatisfied, and this pursuit is ultimately futile. Through his use of many different characters in his novel, Fitzgerald helps support this claim by using a character named Gatsby, who was trying to pursue his own American Dream.
First, F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is inadequate, or with fault. The American dream is the belief that all Americans can earn wealth, success, and happiness through hard work. Fitzgerald believes there are faults to this claim, however. For example, Gatsby, a man who was raised in poverty, worked hard to obtain his wealth, but ended up unhappy, opposite of what the American Dream supports. This is one example out of many that Fitzgerald used in expressing how he felt about the American Dream.
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Scott Fitzgerald implies that the people who pursue the American Dream are Dissatisfied and unhappy. Gatsby ends up falling in love with a woman named Daisy, and he makes it his main goal to win over her. Fitzgerald uses this as an example of the idea that by following the American Dream, a person is likely to be completely unsatisfied, and left wanting more, despite the fact that they worked hard. Gatsby does end up getting Daisy to fall in love with him, but he was still not satisfied, and he wanted her to admit that she had no feelings for her husband, Tom Buchanan. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s greediness to explain the idea of how the American Dream never leaves one satisfied, but instead, wanting more. Just like Gatsby, one will achieve their dream, and then end up unhappy and wanting more than what they have, which might lead to their