Great Gatsby and the American Dream

The Great Gatsby and the American imagine thither is re with child(p)ly ify no set explanation of what the American day-dream is, every peerless has different views on what they name it as. The main idea of the American inhalation is pretty much qualification it big and being successful in spiritedness, having every issue you need, riches, prosperity, love and cheer. Jay Gatsby portrays the American Dream in some senses only when non to its broad potential.Throughout the story The Great Gatsby the American Dream isnt shown in its positive frail moreover, more of the opposite of that more of the ruin or distress of it. Everyone wanted to be living the American Dream the hobby of mirth in sprightliness. In the 1920s kind of of going for functions that brought merriment everyone seemed to flap around coin, wealth, and power. Instead of finding happiness with what they had they were all trying to attain currency and power and believed this would lead to hap piness.If they had all that already they took it all for granted and didnt see everything that they had right there in prior of them. Although it may have seemed someone had it all on the outside, once you real knew the person you could see that they werent living the beat life and werent that much bring out than anyone else. The American Dream took a softwood to actually achieve and no one really lived the actual dream because of patchy an(prenominal) reasons but they were living some flavors of it.The iii main characters fail to pursue the American Dream to its entirety for Gatsby he assay to be something he wasnt only so he could draw a bead on Daisy and love, without this he was zero for Daisy it was because of greed she lived for notes and tender status which got in the way of her happiness and being with who she really love and for gobbler his bills gets in the way of morality and he took everything he had in count of him for granted. Jay Gatsby went from nothing to something to try to win all over Daisy.His American Dream wasnt well-nigh having actual things, although it involved having to get them, instead it was trying to get the love of Daisy. ahead in his life when he beginning(a) fell in love with Daisy he was a poor man and Daisy didnt want that at all. Due to Gatsbys low social standing she wouldnt be with him. Gatsby wanted a fall apart life and he thought he could do it if he put his pass to it, which is also a part of the American Dream. Eventually he got money and became fatty but he did this through and through banned methods.This is the complete opposite of what the American Dream is because its supposed to be achieved through good virtue and hard figure out. He threw extravagant parties only to try and get close to Daisy, hoping that she would show up to them, but he himself never actually tended to(p) his parties. He wasnt living a very great life as it seemed to everyone else, it was all a lie. The only thi ng that gave his life meaning was Daisy and that was the one thing he couldnt have.She only came corroborate to Gatsby after Gatsby attained his millions and was part of the highschool social class, but his life motionless wasnt very stable. This shows that she let wealth get in the way of her love. Daisy loved Gatsby but because of the fact that there was really no stability in his life she didnt feel comfortable with it and wouldnt leave Tom for him. She was after the money and because Tom was settled down she unconquerable to stay with him where it was safe. Greed and the fact that money took priority over everything with her was what held her back from happiness and living the American Dream.Tom was cheating on Daisy but she still stayed with him regardless just because she was comfortable with that lifestyle of being in the upper class and being seen as wealthy. Tom was a rich, handsome, successful man with a wife and family, and everything going for him, but instead of bei ng happy with what he had he went and ruined others lives. He cheated on Daisy with Myrtle who was married to Wilson and destroyed their marriage. His money got in the way of his morals, family, and living the American Dream.Tom and Daisy somewhat represent the American Dream through their wealth and prosperity this was only a part of the dream not the whole picture because they still werent happy they just possessed the material items. The American Dream is contradicted, everyone wanted it but no one lived it for what it was supposed to be. Gatsby in the end sees himself as a failure when Daisy chooses Tom instead of him. The failure of Gatsbys hoped for life relates to the failure of the American Dream. Without his dream Gatsby has nothing nothing to keep him going, no direction, and no purpose to live.He was un live up to with life and in the end, Wilson had killed him. This shows that Jay Gatsbys American Dream didnt go anywhere and wasnt satisfied to its full extent although h e act to succeed he failed. The extent of the novel The Great Gatsby representing the American Dream is more of showing that the American Dream isnt always achieved and doesnt always work out the way you want it to or think it should. The American Dream is hard to achieve and it seems as if its out of the question for anyone to actually achieve every aspect of it, so it is just what it is, a dream.