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The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

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Gatsby is a representation of all-desirable and all-wanted but unachievable American Dream because of inequality of opportunities. He is a man of undefined ethnicity, who “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald 98). His background is not a noble one: “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people”(Fitzgerald 98). Despite his bad socio-economic background, Gatsby is able to acquire wealth and fame, which might seem like an achieved goal. However, he was never able to fit into the upper-class society because of his undefined ethnic background, which contradicted the nativist attitude of that time to defend the purity of the American people. His main goal is to achieve Daisy and, “his dream must have seemed so close
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