The Great Gatsby was a tragic novel written and published on April 10,1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a book based on the American dream and different people with different perspectives, and lifestyles trying to achieve this dream. The American dream can mean a lot of things, but for the most part it is this pursuit of happiness where people are able to recreate themselves and become successful, no matter where they begin but as long as they work hard to earn their success, so they can have a happy and comfortable lifestyle with more freedom and opportunities. In The Great Gatsby there were a few of the characters who did achieve the American dream due to their wealth and the lots of money they owned. With …show more content…
Tom and Daisy were two of the wealthiest people in the book and were living the dream, but throughout the book they corrupted the dream for themselves with the decisions they were making, which caused their marriage to lose its true values. They began to cheat on each other which later on created a conflict that resulted in the deaths of Myrtle
Wilson and Jay gatsby. Their marriage was proving that money will not buy you happiness.
Money will get you situated with having you live a comfortable life, but it is not worth all the things they will have to offer, which is an empty, materialized version of happiness and the
American Dream, which imperfectly binds them together.
Money will not buy you happiness, but it does play a significant role in providing the conditions for happiness. People with tons of money can cover for their house, health, and their necessities so you won’t have to worry about it and therefore they are not challenged as much as the
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This can be because giving to others makes us feel good about ourselves and can create a sense of connection and purpose.
Although Daisy and Tom were wealthy enough to achieve the American dream, they were still not able to achieve the American dream with all the money they owned. This proves that all