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Comparing The American Dream In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Take a trip back to the 1920s to the East egg of New York where everyone wanted to go to these glamorous parties that Gatsby threw ever Saturday.Many people say only the ones who are born wealthy can live the American Dream I believe by working hard anyone can reach it. The American Dream takes a big part of the novel The Great Gatsby. What really is the American Dream? Throughout the book it shows how the people in the 1920s lived this dream and The desire everyone had in the West egg to be able to live it. But is it really even worth working to achieve living the American Dream, does it still exist in modern time?
The American Dream is known as a life of equality, the ones who lived it are basically living a perfect life. In The Great Gatsby the author shows how in the 1920s Not everyone was living this type of life yet and how social discrimination was just one of the biggest reason no one could live this American Dream fully. In this time the American Dream was more of a desire of for everyone who threw big parties like Gatsby. The upper class would throw parties for pleasure because of the riches they …show more content…

The only difference between the two is that Tom was born in the American Dream and he never had to work for anything in his life.As for gatsby he actually had to work to get this well known and be rich.But did this really make him happy? All the things that he had was for just one big desire Gatsby wanted to regain the love of his life. He did not care about the money all he wanted was daisy, this goes to show again that the American Dream was more about having pleasure.At the end of the day money can not buy you happiness and that is when Gatsbys American Dream is destroyed left without the pleasure of getting what he wanted and what he already

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