What Is The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

What is the American Dream exactly? Why is it that everyone seems to have something to chase after? In the novel “The great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald the ultimate message about the american dream is an illusion. That we only wish of reaching and the only thing we are capable of is running after this idea but never really get to. Fitzgerald does not believe in the american dream because in the book he depicts the american dream as something tragic. For example in the novel it says how “ No-Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out… in the sorrows and short-winded elations of men” (Pg.2) This explains how Fitzgerald imagens the American dream. As something eats away at us little by little.

People try to pursue their dreams by all means legally or not. In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a character named NIck Carraway to tell the story of a man named Jay Gatsby which later turns out not to even be his real name. His story is about chasing after his own idea of the american dream. Gatsby does this by making money illegally. While working hard to create his way of living in luxury by throwing extravagant parties where people from all over would come to have a grand time. Gatsby didn’t do this for the people but for his to pursue his cream and that personification was Daisy Buchanan who he fell in love with while being in the war. The entire reason as to why Gatsby wanted to become rich was so that one day in the near future he would be able to captivate Daisy and win her over like he did when they were younger. But Gatsby wasn’t really in love with Daisy but more of the status that came with her, since she was already rich with “old money” while Gatsby