Often times people think that you can get anything you want by working hard and staying true to yourself, but what if getting what you want means changing your name and becoming wealthy by illegal business. This is what Gatsby did, but died without ever making his dream a reality.
The American dream is a happy way of living that is thought of by many Americans as something that can be achieved by anyone in the US, especially by working hard and becoming successful. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Nick Carraway narrates how he and Jay Gatsby met and the times that they were together. Jay Gatsby is very wealthy and has huge parties but is deeply in love with Daisy Buchanan. Throughout the book Nick explains the struggles Gatsby goes through to try to be with Daisy, which ultimately leads to his death without ever having the opportunity to be with Daisy. Although the Great Gatsby clearly shows that Americans can reach wealth, it ultimately suggests that the American Dream is pure and unreachable. Because Jay Gatsby followed his pure dream but never attained it.
Throughout the whole novel, Nick identifies Gatsby as a very romantic character, because he is idealistic and dreamy and always seems optimistic, even during the times when most people would lose hope. Fitzgerald states "He had one of those rare smiles
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Unfortunately, Gatsby never realizes that Daisy is not a good woman. On page 161, Fitzgerald states "If that was true he must have felt that he had a lost the old warm world, paid a high price for a living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass." This shows that Gatsby was killed and he never truly got a chance of living his life because he was so focused on one