Gatsby
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 without a past...he
Myrtle's love for Tom was doomed to failure due to her lower social standing. On one side of the coin you have the rich that cannot be involved with the poor, and the poor who want to be involved with the rich. Jay soon wanted Daisy to leave Tom, but she was against the idea. Tom was catching on to Daisy's affection for Jay and was very jealous. She constantly strived to keep herself busy by social interaction or physical pleasure. Scott Fitzgerald wants us to take home with us. To some people the American dream is to make money, to some people it is to become famous. The Great Gatsby as he came to be known, was just a young boy who wanted love more than anything else in life. The Great Gatsby takes this belief, and shows its flaws through the lives of Jay, Tom and Daisy. 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. He wanted his love with Daisy to flourish. Gatsby encounters his dream of love at this point of his life. Jay would never be satisfied as just her lover, and wanted to marry her. Through many meetings between the two, Jay's love became stronger and stronger.
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