Jay Gatsby American Dream

The Great Gatsby is considered to be a great American novel full of hope, deceit, wealth, and love. Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful and charming young woman who can steal a man’s attention through a mere glance. Throughout the novel, she is placed on a pedestal, as if her every wish were Gatsby’s command. Her inner beauty and grace are short-lived, however, as Scott Fitzgerald reveals her materialistic character. Her reprehensible activities lead to devastating consequences that affect the lives of every character. I intend to show that Daisy, careless and self-absorbed, was never worthy of Jay Gatsby’s love, for she was the very cause of his death.

The first dream that does not get fulfilled is the one of Gatsby. He starts off as an underprivileged boy and struggles his way to the top. We make his acquaintance when he is on the top of his life. He is enjoying his big house and his vast wealth. The one thing he cannot have is his lovely Daisy. Gatsby’s story reflects the “classical” American dream: Anyone can make anything of himself/herself with just elbow grease, spirit and a whole lot of confidence. Jay loves Daisy and, sadly, she is the one thing which he cannot procure to his “perfect life”.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby focuses on the excitement and adventure of the roaring twenties, a time filled with great economic success and parties said to last the whole decade. New to Long Island and New York, aspiring bond man Nick Carraway becomes infatuated with the lifestyle of his rich peers living the “American dream”. He gains interest in his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, who lives in an incredible mansion and has a vast amount of wealth. Gatsby uses his money to try and steal his love, Daisy Buchanan from her unfaithful husband, Tom. Characters in The Great Gatsby are unhappy and unfulfilled with their lives due to greed manipulating their view of The American Dream. This skewed perception also affects their unreasonable life expectations and their narcissistic thoughts create a larger potential for failure, such as Gatsby’s extravagant plan to steal Daisy Buchanan.

Gatsby creates an identity for himself as a wealthy man, who lives a glamorous life by throwing huge parties, and is known by the most prestigious figures in New York. What the partygoers don’t realize is that the parties and his wealth is all in the hopes of rekindling with his love from the past, Daisy. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of a young man named Jay Gatsby, who came from nothing, and built up to be everything that he had hoped and dreamed of being. However, his one dream did not become a reality due to misfortunate events. All the money in the world couldn’t make Gatsby happy, as he died as his true self, not the identity he created for himself.

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so,” once said Charles de Gaulle. This valiant quote by a former president of France accentuates my opinion of the Great Jay Gatsby. From humble beginnings rises our main focus of F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ The Great Gatsby. Young Jimmy Gatz is brought to West Egg from his heavily impoverished North Dakota family. His desire to be something greater than a farmer drove him to fortune and love through any means necessary; his life long obsession, Daisy Fay, infatuates Jay in his own insatiable thirst for her affection. James follows Daisy in the years after he is deployed to World War 1, and when he sees she has married Tom Buchanan he becomes hell-bent on replicating the success Tom has inherited in order to win over Daisy. Through moderately deceitful ways, Jay Gatsby builds his wealth and reputation to rival and even supersede many already lavish family names. Astonishingly, the great Mr. Gatsby, overrun with newfound affluence, stays true to his friends, lover, and his own ideals to his blissfully ignorant end.

Lying has deadly effects on both the individual who lies and those around them this concept is demonstrated in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is one of many great American Novels. It has a perfect mixture and combination of mystery, romance, and heartbreak needed to capture a reader’s attention and pays close attention to the small details to keep them there. The essence of this book is based on the American Dream, moreover the decline of the American Dream of the 1920s. At the onset of this book, the reader is introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who relates the past happenings that construct the story of Jay Gatsby. In the novel, Gatsby, a wealthy socialite pursues his dream, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is Gatsby’s long lost love, essentially she will fulfill his “American Dream.” In the process of pursing Daisy, Gatsby betrays his morals and destroys himself.

Jay and Daisy fall in love and have a relationship for a month until Jay is deployed. Gatsby becomes obsessed with the idea of having a relationship with daisy again. He becomes so obsessed that he came to realize that what would separate was that he didn’t have any money to his name. This leads Gatsby to make some crooked decisions down the line and bank off of bootlegging during the prohibition. Gatsby, now very wealthy buys a mansion across West Egg where Daisy lives and throws massive extravagant parties and invites everyone. Gatsby spends senseless amounts of money and made all of these decisions that could have landed him in jail in the pursuit of his once true love. Gatsby sets up this huge scheme that he sees as honorable and noble but in the end, it all leads to his death. This book is not worth challenging to many, as it is portraying life of the “Roaring Twenties.” One could see how this book might be banned due to the craziness, alcohol, sex and language. But this book is an important part of history, although not based on a true story it is one of the greatest American novels of all time. All high school students should read this book at one point in their school career, and learn about how Fitzgerald saw the Roaring

Even though Gatsby was born James Gatz on a small farm in North Dakota, he was motivated by Dan Cody and Daisy to dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth and love. Some people might claim that Gatsby was able to achieve his dream because he succeeded in becoming a fabulously wealthy man in West Egg. However, this is only partially true, for Gatsby’s genuine American Dream was to attain Daisy Buchanan. Therefore, this novel portrays both the power and deleterious result of the American Dream (C. J. Dawson).

The American dream is a concept that has been wielded into American literature throughout history. Projecting the contrast between the American dream and reality, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates his opinions, primarily based off of his experiences and tribulations in World War I, throughout his literary works.Many people believe that deplorable moral and social values have evolved from the materialistic pursuit of the American dream especially throughout the roaring twenties. His novel, The Great Gatsby, which is set in this time period, shows a castigation of love caused by these specific ideals and lack of morale. It depicts the general

   The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about one man's disenchantment with the American dream. In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay Gatsby, a man who aspired to achieve a position among the American rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Fay. Gatsby's downfall was in the fact that he was unable to determine that concealed boundary between reality and illusion in his life.

The Great Gatsby is a novel about the American Dream and its failed promise. In the novel, the bootlegger Jay Gatsby accumulates a fabulous amount of wealth to impress his beloved childhood sweetheart Daisy Buchannan. But all of the wealth in the world cannot buy Gatsby 'class.' Gatsby's failure to recognize this is symbolized in his acquisition of a bloated, palatial home in which he holds frequent, boozy parties. The falseness of the home symbolizes the falseness of the life Gatsby is creating to impress others and lead the American Dream of success.

Symbolism is a big part in how people express certain feelings or represent important items. The American Dream is a huge achievement that everyone wants to reach. Whether people want to admit it or not, it is a symbol all it’s self. It can be anything really, a great job, a family, white picket fence, even music or attending concerts of your favorite band. The American Dream is something that makes you so happy and what you can achieve or want achieve in your lifetime. The main AMerican Dream is money, a family, and happiness. In The Great Gatsby the american dream is a green light.There are several different colors for the different symbols in the book which are portrayed throughout the book often, and in the right context. Each character is put with that color and in different scenes for different reasons. Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway all portrayed the same color symbol; yellow which stands for death and or/ corruption.

Jay Gatsby’s sole purpose in life is to achieve the American Dream: to become a land owner, married to the love of his life, who live in comfort and abundance. However, he never gets everything he wants as his love for Daisy is not as fully reciprocated as he wishes it to be. His dream, and the one Nick pursues as well, are only dreams in the end. The culture of the time only gives empty fulfillment with no real substance. The people, like their dreams, are only illusions of what they want to be.

In the book, The Great Gatsby, it shows what happened to the American Dream in the 1920's, which is a day and age when the dreams got the opportunity to be particularly polluted for a few reasons. The American dream is both a blessing and a curse in light of the way that unfortunately for Myrtle, Gatsby and Daisy it has brought on pleasure and destruction. The American Dream is defined by, “the set of ideals (democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success”, and the people in the 1920’s are obsessed with having more and not appreciating what they already have. Gatsby has the wealth, connections with people of a higher power, a large home, and throws parties every weekend

Gatsby does not belong to his own class and he is not accepted by the upper class, therefore he becomes an exception. Because of disappointment of being looked down upon and impossibility of accept by the upper class, he has nothing left except his love, which is also his “love dream”. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has been the sole drive and motive of his living. Gatsby’s great love is also the root of his great tragedy, because he is desperately in love with a woman who is not worthy of his deep love. Fitzgerald offers Gatsby with the spirit of sincerity, generosity, nobility, perseverance, and loyalty. All his good natures can be seen