Being happy is the main idea of a fulfilled life; and in many situations this idea is hard to reach. The Idea behind the U.S. is THE AMERICAN DREAM. In this dream it is ideal that success will bring you life, liberty, and put you on the pursuit to happiness. To most people the “dream” is the chasing of material items, and has a terrible result to this idea. Most hours working and investing and less hours of enjoying what they have earned. When the poor find a successful life they are many times caught up in it and then their life turns to a rich life, Hints the term rags to riches. But the real question is, can money buy you the best and happiest life? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby’s untrue plan of attaining his dream to be with Daisy, shows the rags to riches trend of the pursuit of the American Dream. In the book, the author highlights Gatsby’s over-the-top life and later reveals that Gatsby was not always rich. It is foreshadowed that Gatsby is hiding something from the past as he is hesitant about the stories that Gatsby tells throughout the book. There were always so …show more content…
The green light was the light on the end of Daisy’s dock in East Egg that could be seen from Gatsby’s house in West Egg. Gatsby’s wish for Daisy is exposed when Gatsby makes rare trips to his dock to look at the green light. It is his goal, of one day being closer to the one that lives in that house, Daisy. It is also a symbol to trying to get the American Dream. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….And one fine morning —-So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past Fitzgerald, p.