The American dream isn't just one of our country but one of the whole world, a global dream, a human dream, something independently sought after, something Universally aspired. People search for the same principles and emotions wanting to find happiness and security and love in this culture which has been embedded around ourselves. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, looks at people as a whole when expressing the american dream, love is the American dream and we are all reaching for something that is impossible to attain but to hold on to hope that was never even there is what keeps the dream alive.
There is something meaningful, something powerful, something human in finding comfort in the things we don't have. People reminiscing about times, nostalgic about the past and hopeful of the future, looking out to the horizon until it disappears with the curves if the earth. “But
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“Strike it rich” on wall street type of mindset. "The culture when the great Gatsby was published one of wealth and optimistic views that are associated with the American dream, rather than the slim dark undertone that Gatsby represents,"(Wulick). Showing Gatsby's kind of living vs Myrtles we can see that privilege does not deliver happiness, rather happiness itself is a privilege. “This planet has a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy” (Adams). These tiny piece of flimsy paper control your life more than you do. No money cannot buy happiness but it can sure buy you a nice car so you can drive to try and find it. People take what they can get and people take what they are given but they all know that they'll want