Research Paper On The Great Gatsby

Many people’s main wish in life is to be rich and successful, but do they ever actually accomplish it? People will just say that they want to be rich, but never do anything about it. Others will actually try to get rich and successful in whatever way possible. For example, in The Great Gatsby, all Gatsby wanted was to be rich and successful and he actually accomplished those goals, but he did not always fulfill his dreams in the best ways. He was a bootlegger and was stealing Tom Buchanan's wife, Daisy, as his own. Even though he did not always do the best things to be successful, he was still able to accomplish his lifelong dreams. While some might say that Gatsby is a bootlegger and a homewrecker, Gatsby is actually very great for accomplishing

For example, in chapter 7, Tom points out that Gatsby was a bootlegger to try and sway Daisy’s opinion of him. “I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong” (Fitzgerald 133). Gatsby definitely had his qualms to him, but everyone does so this is not a great point to argue. Although he was a bootlegger, Gatsby was able to accomplish his hopes and dreams that he had waited so long for. In chapter 6, Nick talks about how Jay Gatsby is actually James Gatz, a dirt poor farmer from North Dakota (Fitzgerald 98 ). One day while Gatsby was working, on a particularly rough day on Lake Superior, a yacht was spotted struggling in the violent waves. James Gatz saw this as his chance to finally get rich and be successful. The man on the yacht was Dan Cody, a millionaire who got rich off of the gold mines in Nevada. This was James Gatz's chance to finally achieve his dreams, and he did! He was able to sail all around the world on a yacht that represented all the beauty and glamour of the world. But once Dan Cody had died, Gatsby assumed that he would receive a $25,000 inheritance, but he never did. Gatsby was back to being penniless, and that is when he joined the war and found