The Great Gatsby Research Paper

The New Popularity Contest For Americans, dreams have become a popularity contest for who can achieve the best dreams. The results of the past have created the so-called American Dream to be about dreaming so big that it is impossible to reach them. Along with dreaming too big, many things socially and economically affect how our dreams occur. As shown in The Great Gatsby and the CNN Business article, "What broke the American Dream for Millennials" the American Dream is seen as an illusion since intangible dreams are not worth reaching for. An example of the American Dream being an illusion is shown in the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald because James Gatsby was hopeful of big dreams. Gatsby is a man of big dreams and

As his dreams are too big, Gatsby should focus on smaller, more obtainable dreams. However, he found himself always attempting to play catch up, wishing for something from the past, or trying to slow down time to reach his dreams. Unlike Gatsby, the American Dream should be about obtaining dreams and reaching past the old to achieve them. In recent years, the American Dream has become the idea of dreaming bigger than what is attainable, making the American Dream an illusion. Another example is in the CNN Business article, "What broke the American Dream for Millennials" by Allison Morrow. New families tend to struggle to know what to wish for. As a result of the past pandemic, families across the country are identifying the culprits for the economy's loss of the American Dream. "...high prices, an impenetrable housing market, persistent inequality, [and] rising debt" (Morrow) all lead to unhopeful results for many Americans. Young millennial families are experiencing these results firsthand as inflation and high dreams affect their