How Is The American Dream Attainable In The Great Gatsby

Intro:

The American dream, something that has been a craze in American society. Everyone from all different backgrounds pursue it and have discussed it at least once in there lives, whether it be through a simple conversation to speeches and novels. In fact there is one novel that centers around the American dream, this novel is The Great Gatsby. According to the author F.Scott Fitzgerald the American dream is life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness and it is achievable. How he portrays is through three ways (two of which are through gatsby, a person who could be considered the face of the American dream) and they are Gatsby’s past, the things Gatsby’s owns, and the abstract details put in by fitzgerald.

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It is through some abstract details like setting and events that point to this claim being correct. One of these details is east egg and west egg, yes the very settings that the majority of the book takes place in. this is proven to be a detail in chapter 1 when nick moves to the west egg which is said to be “the less fashionable end”( nick pg 5) but then describes the east egg to be more of the traditional rich and more of “white marble mansions” (nick pg5) than the west egg which is sort of the new rich. This shows that people have achieved the american dream. Another detail is the green light that gatsby sees in chapter 2. It symbolizes how gatsby wants to be with daisy but it also can represent the american dream too. Gatsby being the people who live in america and the green light is the american dream. The final symbol shown in this is the valley of ashes, which is a neighbourhood that myrtle and wilson live in. it is a poor neighbourhood and it represents how the poor have to carry the higher class in order to make the system work. It is evidence that when the american dream is achieved its effects can be great in both a positive and negative