How To Become Successful In The Great Gatsby

Success comes at a price, and that price tends to define itself as a loss. Throughout the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the idea of becoming successful and paying that price went hand in hand. Stated by Stephen Marche in his article from The Atlantic, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely,” at the American core is loneliness and it’s been produced by the culture surrounding the American Dream. A byproduct of the American Dream is sacrificing something to have success and to live the higher standard of life. Jay Gatsby was willing to pay whatever price it took to be a part of Old Money and to be with Daisy. In the Great Gatsby, success comes with a price and Gatsby is willing to pay the price of his every move at the cost of becoming Old Money and being with Daisy.
Every aspect of Gatsby’s life was a lot more strategic than it appeared on the

63). Gatsby was still stuck in the past, loving someone he didn’t have and going to all ends of the earth just to impress her. Gatsby traded away personal ties in favor of his self respect, when he hosted these parties he was trying to get Daisy to notice him and notice the extravagant parties he was throwing. In reference to Marche, he traded away “personal ties in favor of pride and self respect.” Multiple people throughout the novel took note of his lifestyle and how it exemplified what really mattered to him, “... he says he’s read a Chicago paper for years on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy’s name” (pg. 64) said by Jordan. Every nonchalant action of Gatsby’s links him to Daisy in some way, shape, or form. She is someone who he would go to extreme measures for; his house, his parties, and his lifestyle was all a cry for attention from Daisy. Gatsby was an extremely strategic person, more so than what is prevalent on the surface and hindsight is twenty twenty; he did it all for Daisy and trying to be a part of that forsaken Old