The Great Gatsby Dreams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about the American Dream. In the Great Gatsby, the dream is that one can acquire happiness through wealth and power. To get his happiness Jay attempts to reacquire the love of his lost sweet heart, Daisy. The main problem with Jay's dream is that Daisy is all ready married. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream "The pursuit of happiness".Jay Gatsby longs for the past. Surprisingly he devotes his adult life trying to recapture it and dies in its pursuit. In the past, Jay had a love affair with a young rich girl, Daisy. Daisy and Jay had fallen in love with each other in spite of knowing that they could not marry because of the difference in their social status. For the first time in Jay's life he was truly happy. During their courtship, Jay was sent off to war. Upon returning from the war, Jay found out that Daisy had married a wealthy man by the name of Tom Buchannon. Jay then spends his life acquiring wealth to reach her economic standards, in hope that he can marry her and rekindle the happiness that he once had. His love for Daisy was impossible in society because "he was at present a penniless young man with
The logic behind this is that being poor keeps people from being happy, and once you become rich, you do not have to struggle with the problems of life, and can therefore be happy. He was convinced of this, which he shows when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. Myrtle's love for Tom was doomed to failure due to her lower social standing. With all of the money that Daisy had, she was not happy. Through many meetings between the two, Jay's love became stronger and stronger. Jay had confronted Jordan at a party of his about how he had yearned for Daisy for the nearly five years that they hadn't seen each other. Jay would never be satisfied as just her lover, and wanted to marry her. Nick was used by Gatsby to get to Daisy, but he never realized it. He uses Nick and Nick's social standing to show Daisy how poor Nick is in comparison to himself. Nick, who lived next door to Gatsby, was used by Jay to get him closer to Daisy. Gatsby hadn't used anybody or anything before, so he pulls all of his favors to try to run into Daisy. She was beautiful and graceful, she was from a rich family, and she had traveled and knew people no matter where she went.
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