The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

The author Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a novel that talks about and covers American issues in the 1920s. He shows in the novel the carelessness and selfishness of everybody at the same time by portraying all of them in the location of west and east egg. Fitzgerald talks about a couple different topics throughout the novel. One of those is," the Attainment of a dream may be less satisfying than the pursuit of it" and the second one is"the American Dream is corrupted by the desire for wealth". He uses those themes to show how americans lived at a different time.

Gatsby and the American Dream Have you ever wondered who could ever live the American dream? In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is the main character and in love with something he does not have, but lives a dream to others. He has all the money he needs to throw parties and have fancy things. Gatsby is considered to be living the American Dream. In the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how Gatsby represents and lives the American dream. In the book The Great Gatsby, it shows how Gatsby lives the American Dream.

It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” (George Carlin). George Carlin, criticizes the dream of prosperity, a promise to any individual for happiness and material success, if they try hard enough, Carlin realizes the reality of the unobtainable dream. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald offers an insight to the lavish life of the 1920’s, or as he coined, The Jazz Age. The novel follows the character of Nick Carraway as he learns the tragedy of an excessive lifestyle that is lived by Jay Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald is able to see past all the luxury and grandeur to expose the unhappiness and misery that tells the reader that money does not bring true joy. The novel describes

The idea of American Dream as presented by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Great Gatsby novel involves rising from poverty or rags to richness and wealthy. The American Dream exemplifies that elements such as race, gender, and ethnicity are valueless as they do not influence the ability of an individual to rise to power and richness. This American Dream makes the assumption that concepts such as xenophobia are non-existent in America a concept that is not true and shows vagueness of the American Dream. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the Great Gatsby to demonstrate the overall idea of living the American dream. Gatsby leaves his small village of farmers and manages to work his way up the ladder although some of the money he uses to climb the ladder is associated with crime “He was a son of God and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 6.7). This phrase shows that Gatsby wasn’t meant for a life similar to that of his father but rather destined for greatness. However, his dream his short-lived and he doesn’t make it to the top as Daisy who is a symbol of his wealthy rejects her and a series of events transpire that result in his death before he could live his American Dream alongside everyone else who was working up the ladder to live the American Dream.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, demonstrates how wealth and power were important elements of social structure during the Roaring Twenties. Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are characters who have been tarnished by their prosperity and power. This status as wealth and powerful individuals affects how they perceive the world around them, and has contributed to the change in the characters portrayed in the novel. Jay Gatsby is a man who obtained his fortune through illicit means and is drive to acquire the love of Daisy. Jay Gatsby believed that wealth would bring him happiness as he would be able to capture the heart of Daisy by maintaining her lavish lifestyle. Tom

One of the most influential writers of the early 20th century was a man named F. Scott Fitzgerald. The biggest topic that he wrote about was the American Dream. Fitzgerald uses many different aspects of writing to get his opinion across, such as the outcome of stories like The Great Gatsby and “Winter Dreams”. He also uses the setting and to explain his beliefs. Based of his work, Fitzgerald believes the American dream is not only unrealistic, but also unattainable.

Ever wonder what it is like being one of the most rich socialites living The American Dream? We learn through Jay Gatsby’s life that it does not guarantee happiness, as happiness cannot be bought. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby learns through many events that occur in his life that money cannot buy you happiness, a relationship that is based off materialistic things is never going to work, and The American Dream is a fallacy. Throughout the novel, Jay Gatsby pursues the appearance of having achieved the American Dream with him plenty of money, but Jay Gatsby’s life proves this dream is a fallacy. It cannot bring him the one thing that gives him true happiness, his love Daisy.

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American dream was shown and presented to be attainable. Both current times and back then in the early 1920’s the American dream was and still is represented as living happily and stress free with their current job, house, and or loved one. The cost for living in such conditions to whoever is working for it is the choice of going through the worst situations to completely achieve their goals. Whether it’s working 10 hours a day every day or throwing all your money on a mansion and parties just to get close to the love of your life.In The Great Gatsby the American dream is most definitely attainable but at the cost of the high chance of losing the opportunity.

The American Dream is Dead Many Americans believe that the American Dream is to have a good paying job, get married, be happy, and have kids. The American Dream is determined by success, power, and hard work. The main factor in achieving the dream is to be successful in the job that the individual wishes to pursue. Most Americans are not content with the amount of success they have acquired. The American Dream is a fantasized illusion that humankind will never attain.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a novel about the chase for love and the American dream in which a man named Gatsby’s quest for a girl named Daisy turns out to be much like the pursuit of the American Dream. Both are made out to be better and more attainable than they are in reality and end up falling short of these expectations. Gatsby builds up his perception of Daisy much like the American dream is advocated for and supported by older generations. Instead of attaining what he thought was his ultimate conquest and realizing his ideal of true success, Gatsby ends up alone, dishonored and dead. If the American Dream is increasingly difficult to attain because it simply isn’t possible for the younger generation in the current economic,

I believe the American Dream is the idea that everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve the success that they want as long as they put in the effort and work hard to reach their goals. It is my understanding that the American Dream is the opposite of being handed things and not having to work for them, which within the book The Great Gatsby, refers to mostly all of the people that live in East Egg such as Tom and Daisy. These are all the people that inherited their money and therefore didn’t have to work for any of it. F Scott Fitzgerald touches on the idea of the American Dream quite subtly throughout the novel and in this essay I will give you some examples of where he does, while it in my opinion is most directly related to both Gatsby’s and Daisy’s lives.

Throughout Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, it’s essentially about the American dream and if people had money, new or old, they could have the American dream, but when they have it all, what do they do with it? Money can turn people into very respectable, and polite people and they still work for what they have, or it can turn people into snobby rude people that expect everyone to do everything for them. Long story short, money affects the way people behave.

Gatsby，as the name of book goes, he is great. He lives during the First War, in this time, people cherish a kind of a skeptical attitude for the traditional concept and try to break this concept, In this novel, traditional American dream is distorted. In the novel, Daisy was born in a wealthy family, for this kind of woman, they lives a cozy life when they are very young, Daisy is not exceptional. A man must have a lot of money to make her live a cozy life in want of Daisy’s love, Gatsby is doomed to be the man. For regaining Daisy’s love, he makes the money by all kinds of means, even becomes a smuggler in order to achieve the target. He is attracted by Daisy’s beauty, but blinds her shortcomings. In his opinion, only in this way can make him make a fortune, but he violates the premise that anyone can’t commit a crime. However, finally, he has no anything, Daisy leaves him, Money become no any sense for him, worse still, he is murdered mistakenly.

The American Dream has always been a necessity to the American Culture. The American dream was one thing that attracted people to start a new life on American’s land; the land of opportunity, wealth, and prosperity. The Dream continues to be relevant after all the years of being in existence, but this dream is not the same as it one nor is it the same for each person. As a whole, the American Dream can be interpreted as starting low on economic or social level and working the way to the top. Being different for each individual, the American Dream is not necessarily attainable for everyone.

The article “Rethinking American Dream” explains the evolution of the American Dream through the years, and how the modern view is quite different from how it was viewed in the past. Originally, the American Dream was an idea that gave promise to ordinary people, for a happy lifestyle. As times changed, it gradually became associated with fame and wealth. This changed the way society viewed its “promise” therefore changing what people were working towards. This relates to The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald because one of the main themes in the novel is the American Dream.