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Some people go through many obstacles to meet their dream, only to find out in the end it was all for nothing. In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, focuses on the life of Gatsby and how he spent his entire life reaching for his dream and never met it. Nick, who is Gatsby 's neighbor, thinks that Gatsby is above the rest of society because he comes from new money and devoted his life to Daisy. However Gatsby is not superior; he ended up not getting the one thing that he wanted most and wasted his life away for Daisy. Through Gatsby Fitzgerald is showing even though you work your whole life to attain a goal, it might not end up working out.

Any one person can have hopes in achieving greatness by reaching their goals. One of those goals could be to attain wealth or to become wealthy. Francis Fitzgerald’s fictional novel, The Great Gatsby, addresses the different effects wealth can have on certain individuals. All through this novel, one can find that the desire of wealth can cause the devastation of others.

The American Dream can mean multiple different things depending on who you ask. Some individuals will answer it as having freedom of religion, class or race others will say it is about the ability to choose where they want to work, what they want to wear, or what they are going to do tomorrow. For Jay Gatsby and many other, the American dream is about gaining wealth and material possessions in an attempt to find happiness. In the Novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows us that the American Dream is the concept of being perfect, something that can never be acquired but can always be reached for. "The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don’t compromise, you

Human beings bear a resemblance to an iceberg because much about them stays submerged from the sight of the viewer. Most people wear masks to conceal their true personalities and present themselves, to the world, the way they want to be seen. To truly understand a person, one must get him to cast off the masks he wears in order to reveal his true self, which is very hard to do. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the theme of appearance versus reality was apparent throughout the novel. The characters within the novel appear to be sincere and honourable when looking at them behind their mask but in reality, they are corrupt and immoral. The conflict between illusion and reality can be

As the Roaring Twenties emerge nationwide, a new sense of optimism and hopefulness begin to develop throughout all walks of life. Society is rapidly changing, and the 20’s create a time in which one believes they can create a new beginning and achieve their grand ambitions and aspirations. It was an era of liberation and many took advantage of the time to branch out and find themselves in a society that usually rejected change. Women often resisted against the social norm and eliminated their long held beliefs about proper roles for their gender. They began to embrace their sexuality by defying conventional attire and discarding the standard of how women should act in public. They began by cutting their hair into a short bob, wearing

In the early 1920’2 there was a dream that everyone yearned to reach. A dream of wealth, prosperity, and fame. This dream became the sole focus of many generations, leading them down a path of corruption and self-destruction. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, you witness the steady destruction of three individuals as they spend their lives pursuing the American dream. This dream has caused depression, adultery and even the death of the Great Gatsby himself.

What does the word disillusion really mean? The word illusion can have several different meanings, within the same category. The main definition is to be in a deceived state or to see an optical illusion from a faulty perception (of reality). The prefix “dis” means “opposite of,” “apart,” or something negative. So if one is disillusive, does that mean one will always see reality through a clear leans? According to dictionary.com, the word disillusion means, “to free from or deprive of illusion.” Another definition is that one’s largest dream could be shattered into a million pieces, and is broken beyond repair. Integrating this meaning, one may ask, “is it good to be disillusive? Or is it bad?” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the astonishing book called The Great Gatsby in the 1920s, it maybe perhaps one of the greatest American novels ever written today. When reading this wonderful book, in class and on my own, I found that each character had confronted disillusion at some point. Their individual disillusion kept them in a fantasy world until the truth was revealed and they were left with a choice to continue the fantasy in their own mind or face reality. Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, and of course Jay Gatsby, all experience disillusion in different ways through out the book.

admired, as he feared, not to be loved, as he made himself believe; but to be necessary to people” (247). His only hope in loving himself is to be loved by someone else.

The Great Gatsby, set in the summer of 1922 (Program 17), focuses on Nick Carraway, a young, middle class man who travels to New York to make his fortune in bonds. Soon after he settles in West Egg, Long Island, he goes to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom across the bay in East Egg. There, he learns that Tom is having an affair in which Daisy is aware of, he discovers that the man who lives in the mansion next door is the mysterious Jay Gatsby who has a questionable past and throws elaborate parties, and he meets Jordan Baker, a golf champion and friend of Daisy’s.

When one thinks of the American Dream, it never is the same as the first. One could dream of making it big in Hollywood while another just wants to be able to provide enough money for their family. Everybody has a different dream that they want to accomplish in life and everybody faces some kind of road block while trying to reach it. The Great Gatsby is a great example of the American Dream and the struggles one can face while trying to achieve it. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald argues that the American Dream is difficult to achieve because old relationships and social status can interfere. He argues that the American Dream is difficult to achieve through Myrtle Wilson’s want for a new life full of riches and luxury, Daisy Buchanan’s complicated relationship with her husband and dream of reliving an old romance, and Jay Gatsby’s idea that the past can repeat itself and win him his first real true love.

In our society today we all identify as unique individuals with different dream,perspectives,personalities, etc. But how are characters in books identities represented like ours? Usually authors that produce characters use character development which is the building of a character 's personality,,attitude,society, or maybe they way they were raised or born. All these key factors play a role is how a character acts around people in the book, how he sees the world, and also his/her attitude toward other charters.

In his novel, “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a main character that catches the attention of his readers. This character surrounds himself with expensive belongings and wealthy people and goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. He is the protagonist who gives the name to the story. Gatsby is a newly wealthy Midwesterner - turned - Easterner who orders his life around for one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. His quest for the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved and, eventually, to his death.

James Gatz or as he is known Jay Gatsby who was raised in a poor farming family in North Dakota, ran away and took an opportunity to learn from the rich man he had saved by staying with him and learning how to act “rich” to make himself rich and to live in his dream world. Gatsby took the opportunity and went into the drugs business or in other words bootlegged and turned from rags to riches. Just like that Gatsby represents the American dream which according to James Trusio Adams from The Epic of America is, “ that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller of every man, with opportunities for each according to his ability or achievement.” We are given an opportunity to get a 4 year college degree and to achieve

A perfect world may be where there is money, a perfect, house, a wonderful spouse, beautiful and smart kids. The perfect lifestyle may only include having a job you’ve always wanted, or something simple as retaining the freedom given when entering the country. Ellen Truax was someone who saw the way people envisioned the American Dream, and those who couldn’t achieve it. She proposed an act called DREAM Act, which stands for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors. By this proposal she sought to give those who have been through tragic events such as deportation, a change to recreate themselves, a chance to give themselves a better life; the American Dream. (Stockwell, Diane, trans. Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight For Their American Dream.” Publisher Weekly (2014): 59-60. Literary Reference Center. Web. 8 Apr. 2015.)