Jay Gatsby And The American Dream

The American Dream has driven millions of people to come to the United States in hopes of fulfilling the name. The American Dream has often promised that if one works hard, they will be able to move up in society and wealth. This is a vision that the people of America hold dearly. To Jay Gatsby, he has his vision that correlates to the American Dream, and this vision that he holds on to is his love for Daisy Buchanan. While the American Dream to many Americans has to do with wealth and money, there is a correspondence between money and Daisy, as Nick can describe that Daisy’s “ voice is full of money”(120). This can help explore Gatsby’s attract to Daisy. As life continues, and people change, Gatsby love from daisy stem from a certain memory

This is the constant of Gatsby’s memories when he thinks of his love for Daisy, and their relationship he goes back to this moment, that would never leave him. The correlation between the American Dream and Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy is that Daisy represents the wealth that Gatsby’s attracted to. The American dream entices everyone, filling them with hopes and dreams, but Fitzgerald shines a light on the reality of this vision, just as Gatsby attraction with Daisy filled with past ideal and passion. The American Dream falls short from its promise because people can work hard, but the working class remains in the working class, while the rich stay rich. Even Gatsby himself found himself rich solely from his illegal business of bootlegging. When Nick sees Gatsby’s and Daisy’s reunion, he suspects that Daisy is deviating from his perfect vision, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion”(95). While Gatsby holds on to this perfect vision of how Daisy and his relationship is going to be, it has been years since the last time they were together. During this time, people change and are not the same as some

The relationship between Gatsby and Daisy mirrors one's journey through the American Dream. The American often starts from nothing: the working class. This is equivalent to how Jay Gatsby started out, “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people… So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby… as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher… brought him food and bed”(98). Stemming from and poor man, Gatsby, just as a regular working individual, start from the bottom and works their way up. To many Americans, the hope is to wealth, but to Gatsby, his attraction is to Daisy, “It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy… he was at present a penniless young man without a past… he had no real right to touch her hand”(149). Gatsby, who is a poor man, is attracted to Daisy partly because he cannot have her, the social system keeps them apart from each other. Gatsby is poor in more ways than one. First, he is poor regarding material wealth, coming from a poor family. On the other hand, he is at a point where his relationship with Daisy is poor because he feels they are too separated from each other, that he does not deserve her. As the cycle continues, Gatsby finds himself increasing in both wealth, and in his relationship. Commencing as a poor man from