Olivia Moore
Mrs. Burd
English III-B
18 April 2023
The Untouchable Dreams
Dr. Ben Carson once said during a speech at Liberty University, “Sometimes you are not satisfied with your life, while many people in the world are dreaming of living your life.” In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby lives a life worth feeling covetousness over, yet he feels displeased and dissatisfied with the life he has handcrafted for himself. Gatsby cannot handle what his life has enhanced to be. For this reason, rather than wanting to change his life, he defaults back to a relationship with Daisy to restore his past feelings. This elicits an unfulfilled life of hunger for more; never settling. Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, through the
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“He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock.” (Fitzgerald …show more content…
Nick sets out to the scene of what the passengers on the train are seeing coming from Long Island to New York, …“this is the valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (Fitzgerald 23). Such bare places do not exist by mistake, most likely built by the wealthy residents neighboring it, who give no time of day to residents without as much money. While Nick and Gatsby drive to the city, Gatsby expresses to Nick who he was…“then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump with panting vitality as we went by” (Fitzgerald 53). The poorer class surrounds the old and new money classes, giving off the hopelessness of those within the roaring twenties. The hopelessness had caught them, no one seemed able to escape the ‘valley of