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Persuasive Essay On The Great Gatsby

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In the Great Gatsby, Nick is quoted as saying that "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart". It is to be interpreted that Nick meant that reality can never truly measure out to what one wants the outcome of dream to be. This statement often falls true into many statements that we can see in our daily lives- when a thought, or rather dream comes one wants to chase after it no matter the struggle to get to it and sometimes those dreams that took so long and were so hard to grasp are not as amazing as they were once thought to be.
King's observation of how Americans "are to busy dreaming...fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be...", exemplifies the fact that everyone has …show more content…

When one becomes so obsessed with a dream they will do all that it takes to achieve that fantasy that has taken over their mind. All passions are directed towards this one goal and achieving that dream is worth any cost, whether the cost is a good one or not. This is seen in the Great Gatsby as well as real life in a multitude of ways. Such as the way Gatsby builds up his wealth through means of attaining Daisy even if it means going through shady dealings to get what Gatsby wishes to achieve, which is the woman of his dreams. Another perspective of such an event of the dream taking over your way of life and is not often met with the expected outcome could be taken into a political sense of how African Americans were fighting for their rights and "dreamed" of the day that they would achieve the same rights as their white counterparts, a dream that blacks fought for no matter the cost such as imprisonment or even losing their life to radical supremacist. Both dreams involved so many cost and hard work to achieve and it could be said that both were not as lived up to how they could be such as Daisy not truly falling into Gatsby's arms as he planned but remaining with Tom through it all or how blacks are still facing the struggles of social and racial construct that is going on throughout the

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