This novel portrays the American Dream in the 1920´s realistically, where the belief of the American’s was promoted by capitalism because the poor could become millionaires through hard work.
Jay Gatsby was born as James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota and used to go to the school St. Olaf’s. He dropped out because he had to work as a cleaner, but he didn’t like it to be huilitated and also because from his early youth, he despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication.
When he later started working as a fisher, he met a wealthy man called Dan Cody. One day, Gatsby knew that a storm was coming so he warned Dan. He decided to take Gatsby with him and some years later he died on an accident. Gatsby doesn't drink alcohol because he
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The American Dream has, in the pursuit of happiness, degenerated into a quest for mere wealth, which symbolises Gatsby again. In that period of time everything was based in crazy parties, jazz music, young fashionable women dancing the Charleston, large quantities of illegal alcohol being consumed and society behaving in a scandalous manner, such as the ones Jay Gatsby threw in the novel.
„Nobody came“ This quote illustrates the upper class shallowness, because they attended his parties and abused his hospitality but have deserted him when he is no longer of any use. Gatsby’s powerful dream of happiness with Daisy has become the motivation for lavish excess and criminal activities, although he only was hoping to be able to return and live with Daisy. In the end he fails to achieve the American Dream because Daisy never returns to him, even if he never lost the hope, which we can see when Gatsby stood out of the swimming pool to answer the phone thinking of Daisy and then got shot in the back. Another reason is, that he was a criminal who would never have gained acceptance in the American aristocracy. Gatsby´s failure suggests, that it is impossible to forget one´s past and it will always be a part of