The American Dream In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everyone has dreams of their desired future, the only thing they dream of is the only thing they do not have. The American Dream is the hope for happiness, success, and money that someone has. For most people, the dream is based only upon living a greater and higher standard in life. In the catastrophic novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald created Gatsby as a character who became outstanding. He began his life as a lower-class, ordinary, citizen and had to work his way up to being wealthy without help from his family. He aimed for anything he could do to attempt to achieve his American Dream to be with a girl who ditched him for a wealthier man because she wanted to live the upper social class. They soon get reunited in the future giving

Daisy Buchanan represents the beauty of purity, new beginnings, and joyfulness. She is described as someone who is dangerously mystique, careless, and is someone who is very wealthy after choosing to marry a wealthy man. In the novel Gatsby says “Her voice is full of money.” (Fitzgerald 128). Money is something that people have always wanted to dream for. Just like Gatsby really wants and dreams for Daisy. In this case Daisy at the time was someone wishing to be wealthy causing her to choose a different man with lots of money. Even Daisy hopes that one day her future daughter will be a “beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 20) instead of focusing on her intelligence, which is her basically wanting her future daughter to choose a wealthy man so that she can live a “better life”. This shows that the American Dream is not only obsessive with money but is also about looks. Thus, Daisy is willing to give up lots of her happiness from her life to be able to be in the upper social class, causing the corruption of her American

From Casie E. Hermanson, in an essay for Novels for Students, Gale, 1997. “Carraway reveals the story of a farmer’s son-tumed racketeer, named Jay Gatz. His ill-gotten wealth is acquired solely to gain acceptance into the sophisticated, moneyed world of the woman he loves, Daisy Fay Buchanan.” . What Hermanson is saying is that Gatsby has done everything that he could to achieve the American Dream. “On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city,... And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener … In the main hall a bar with real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials'' (Fitzgerald 43 - 44). Furthermore he is fooled into thinking that having all these expensive things will attract Daisy towards him which causes the corruption of the American Dream to occur. Also in Casie E. Hermanson, in an essay for Novels for Students, Gale, 1997. Hermanson says “His romantic illusions about the power of money to buy respectability and the love of Daisy—the "golden girl" of his dreams—are skillfully and ironically interwoven with episodes that depict what Fitzgerald viewed as the callousness and moral irresponsibility of the affluent American society of the 1920s.” Gatsby was holding parties, expensive acquisitions, and becoming the symbol of glamor and