The Great Gatsby is a love story about a young man from a poor background who loses the love of his life in his twenties and then, with extraordinary efforts, reaches the top and returns to claim what once belonged to him about yourself. Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night. dream was to have a future with his one true love, Daisy. Gatsby spent his life wishing for only one thing. His priority is not the mansion, the money, the lavish parties or the fame. He just wanted Daisy. Daisy uses my whole mind and is always my first priority.
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Because for a man, first of all, there must be a career and material things. Gatsby was described by F. Scott Fitzgerald as a person living with dreams and striving for success. We are told that Gatsby came up from essentially nothing, we can also see Jay Gatsby's effort to become a rich man. Gatsby has been trying non-stop: "A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about." And It is clearly stated in the past history: " The American Dream is that dream of land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement". During the 1920s, the perception of the American Dream was that an individual can achieve success in life thev1920s, the perception of the American …show more content…
So Gatsby smuggling alcohol was not acceptable at the time. This quote: "He and this Wolfsheim guy bought a lot of roadside pharmacies here and in Chicago, and sold over-the-counter cereal. That was one of his little adventures. I chose him as a bootlegger the first time I met him, and I'm not wrong." He made a lot of money smuggling alcohol, which as and I'm not wrong." He made a lot of money smuggling alcohol, which as we all know was illegal because of the alcohol ban in the 1920s, and he also made a lot of money from fake stocks. Although Jay Gatsby doesn't make money honestly, he's a very honest man when it comes to what he wants. It is clearly stated in the past history: "Prohibition, which fundamentalists strongly supported, succeed in reducing the consumption of alcohol as well as public drunkenness and drink-related diseases." and in the 1920s, alcohol bans were enacted to