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

Imagine living in a world where dreams that come to mind are highly reachable and come without a struggle, a place where fantasies come into play. Americans far and beyond believe the American Dream is something as simple as owning a home or starting a family, but for Jay Gatsby, that was simply not enough. As a man with implausible dreams, Gatsby thought differently when compared to others. His American Dream was not a job or a home, but rather a married woman who is known as Daisy Buchanan. As Gatsby placed the sole focus of his life on Daisy, he became obsessed. Through a passage in The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald employs personification and diction to convey the idea that Gatsby was lost in the unique distortion of his own reality with Daisy.

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.

Fitzgerald displays Gatsby as man who came from nothing, with an unrelenting passion to obtain material success, or the 1920’s American Dream. Radical transformation was one of Mr. Gatsby’s most outstanding characteristics, taking his desire to change from the once impoverished man to the point of changing his name. Certainly Gatsby possesses admirable traits, as his will power is once again displayed through the longing for his lost love, Daisy. The misconceptions of the time period are illustrated as Fitzgerald displays that Gatsby’s underlying desire for money is to win over Daisy through impressing her with his wealth. Within Adam Cohen’s piece “Jay Gatsby Is a Man for Our Times”, Cohen discusses the worthiness of Gatsby’s goal: “The callow Daisy, whose voice is ‘full of money,’ may not be a worthy goal. But Gatsby’s longing for her, and his willingness to sell his soul to pursue her, are the purest thing in this sordid tale.” Essentially, Fitzgerald demonstrates that Gatsby, nor his relentless will to succeed, are not the issue. It is the time period, along with the misconceptions of a dream, which corrupt the character. Gatsby’s wealth is obtained through unethical ways, like many others who followed the path of easy money. The corruption of bonds does bring Gatsby the wealth he had always longed for, along with extravagant and lavish parties at his mansion. Consequently, we learn that reaching the goal of obtaining wealth ultimately does not lead to

At the very end of The Great Gatsby, Nick perceives the difference between the American Dream of the early explorers who stood in a new, green, flawless world abundant in its promise, spiritual in its beauty, and the illusionary and materialistic dream of the Jazz Age. Although Gatsby’s wealth shows that he achieved the American Dream. Ultimately, F.Scott Fitzgerald uses light and dark imagery and diction of defeat in order to suggest that Gatsby’s obsession with the past has built his dream, while conveying Gatsby’s battle with his past is what made him lose.

Seeing something beautiful that will make one’s life much better makes a person insane in trying to get that thing for himself. In the 1920s, poor people would do whatever it needs to achieve their American Dream even if it was something terrible. That’s because they want to end their misery of living poor and live the life that they always wished. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the author uses the fact of Daisy marrying Tom because of his money while she loves Gatsby, Myrtle cheating on her husband with Tom looking to be rich, and Wilson starting his own little business looking for wealth, to show how the American Dream is impossible because it is based off of greed.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby, a younger man around thirty years old lives in the West Egg of New York City, the side that represents new money. Throughout the story Gatsby pursuits to win over Daisy to attain happiness by showing off his social status and wealth by throwing large parties and showing off his material items because Daisy can not be without them. Gatsby is willing to do anything to be with Daisy and keeps pushing to be with her even though she is out of reach and unattainable. Gatsby ends ups dying and Daisy continues to live with her husband Tom while they are kept together by their same desire for money. Gatsby’s American Dream is out of his reach and unattainable but he continues to pursue his own dream with his wealth

Jay Gatsby was formerly known as James Gatz, a poor 17 year old who fell in love with money and the life that came with it. He had changed his name to Jay Gatsby and was “a penniless young man without a past,” even though he told people he was rich(156). Gatsby met Daisy who had a “voice that was full of money”(127). She fell in love with Gatsby, who lied about how much money he had in order to prove worthy of her. Shortly he had to go to war, where Daisy grew impatient waiting for Gatsby to come home. So she made the decision “by some force of love, of money” to get married to Tom, a man born into money. Even though Gatsby told Daisy he was rich, she just couldn't wait and wanted her life to be together and she wanted it now. She would rather have money than a real love. Gatsby had developed the wealth he had dreamed of, and used his money to prove a point to Daisy. Doing so he would throw lavish parties, lived in an enormous house, and

The Great Gatsby”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays a world filled with rich societal activities, love affairs, and dishonesty. Nick Carraway is the busy narrator of the book, a curious choice considering that he is in a different class and almost in a different world than Gatsby and the other characters. Nick relates the plot of the story to the reader as a part of Gatsby’s circle. He has hesitant feelings towards Gatsby, despising his personality and corrupted dream but feeling drawn to Gatsby’s wonderful ability to hope. Using Nick as an honorable guide, Fitzgerald attempts to guide readers on a journey through the novel to show the corruption and failure of the American Dream. To achieve

Fitzgerald relates Gatsby to a son of a God doing His Father’s business, or the son of his past self doing his business. New money is the best description for Jay Gatsby, being rash, ostentatious, and flamboyant with his riches and power. His house, Rolls Royce, and extreme parties all reflect his character and his motives to gain the love of Daisy once again. It is ironic that Gatsby changed his entire life, however he thinks that everything can return to the way it was in the past, more specifically the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. Their love for each other is now tainted on both sides, one because Daisy also loves Tom, and that Gatsby does not truly love Daisy anymore.

Jay Gatsby is arguably the richest man in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby and is also one of the most conflicted. At face value, it would seem as if he has everything a man could want in life, a mansion, extravagant parties evert night and so on. However what does this man struggle with? What is it that even with all his money he cannot obtain? That one thing would be Daisy Buchanan’s love the one thing that Gatsby has tried so hard to obtain, working for five years, most of his adult life, just to get to see this woman again and its driven him borderline insane. There are quite a few obstacles in Gatsby’s way to obtain Daisy’s love throughout the novel most namely among these are Gatsby’s struggles within himself and with other

The sounds of constant partying and the taste of liquor masks the lonely lifestyle of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, the blooming Jay Gatsby works his life away in an attempt to win over his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby never gets his girl, despite his charming good looks, and is blinded by this idea of “the American Dream”. Fitzgerald parallels his own life through Jay Gatsby and portrays the American Dream as an unattainable object. Jay Gatsby is an accurate representation of how F. Scott Fitzgerald saw himself.

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The American dream in The Great Gatsby written by Scott Fitzgerald, About fighting for what we want. American Dream makes us strong and brave to do things we would not do. American dream can be clothes, money, luxury, and love. In the novel the American Dream is what we picture but if we dig deep inside there are crushed dreams and conquered but failed. American dream is not what we all pictured in the Great Gatsby but they make us believe how great is life is. The Great Gatsby is about high class society where does not mean that all American Dreams come true but there are always a bad ending to their American Dreams.

      The American Dream is deeply rooted in American ideals.  It implies that an individual's determination is the deciding factor in the accumulation of wealth, freedom, and total happiness.  It creates an equal ground on which anyone and everyone can attain spiritual and material fulfillment.  "Although these ideals can be traced back to the original settlers, perhaps one of the earliest written manifestations of the Dream can be found in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence" (Spindler 41).  The Declaration of Independence promises the rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" to all American citizens.  Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is both a qualification and a

The 1920’s was a time of great change to both the country lived in as well as the goals and ambitions that were sought after by the average person. During this time, priorities shifted from family and religion to success and spontaneous living. The American dream, itself, changed into a self centered and ongoing personal goal that was the leading priority in most people’s lives. This new age of carelessness and naivety encompasses much of what this earlier period is remembered for. In addition, this revolution transformed many of the great writers and authors of the time as well as their various works. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, perfectly symbolizes many emergent trends of the 1920’s. More importantly the