The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
"Their love is founded upon feelings from the past, these give it, notwithstanding Gatsby's insistence on being able to repeat the past, an inviolability. It exists in the world of money and corruption but is not of it." The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the demise of those who attempt to capture its false goals. For Jay, the dream is that, through wealth and power, one can obtain happiness. To get this happiness Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream and in order to do this he must have wealth and power. Jay Gatsby, the central figure of the story, is a character who longs for the past. He devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, eventually dying in its pursuit. In the past, Gatsby had a love affair with the beautiful and seemingly innocent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to accumulate his wealth so that he reaches her economic and social standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he
When this attempt fails, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. The situations in the lives of the characters show the worthlessness of materialism, the unsuccessful attempt of Myrtle and Gatsby. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. At this mansion, he throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance that Daisy might show up at one of them. He does not actually attend his parties but watches them from a distance. Later, during a confrontation in the Plaza Hotel, Gatsby still believes that Daisy loves him. Gatsby cannot accept that the past is gone and done with. Gatsby's American Dream is not material possessions, although it may seem that way. That is the classical American Dream, at least for some. He only comes into riches so that he can fulfill his true dream, Daisy. Scott Fitzgerald teaches the lesson of being true to one's self and following one's own personal dream, not the one Americans are programmed to have.
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