Demise Of The Great Gatsby

In the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”, he clearly shows that the search for the American Dream leads to demise. Throughout the book Gatsby seeks wealth, love, and social acceptance and is disappointed in the final result. In my end view after reading this novel, there seems to be true standing factors of why the realities of both the wealthy and working classes have such an unspoken, yet mutual aroma that they breathe.

My own opinion of the ‘American Dream’, is working hard for not only yourself, but supporting your own and being happy with the lifestyle that you have grown with, and being at peace with your own creation would be the most rewarding thing to keep living on through. What’s rubbed off from this novel, is the
impact of society, where the feeling of life fleeting right beneath everyone is upon the ground they walk on. In the world that’s set in this book, it’s a never-ending cycle of wealth, parties, rumors, and materialistic mindsets. Gatsby is figuring out an unspoken feeling of still emptiness in the air, and through the ground that builds up his mansion, that he is not happy yet. I’ve put together that the wealthy have nothing more to do with their lives than throw around their money and think to be satisfied with their lives building, and yet not. Then there’s the working class, that dreams of being rich, and not having a care in the world. Throughout both of these realities, there’s bits and pieces that seem to be missing, with the fact after becoming, or being born rich, what would you do after that? “I’m stiff’, she complained, ‘I’ve been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember”(Pg.18).
The rich seem to be living with boredom through their riches, and the working class beliefs that money is the key to their undying happiness.
Both leading to unsatisfying results in this case, and in ways corrupts their own reputation all on its own. In Gatsby’s status, he had naturally set a mysterious outlook, starting from not attending his own parties as lively, or at all, evenly along with his guests, “I’m Gatsby’, he said suddenly, ‘What!’, I exclaimed, ‘Oh I beg your pardon.’ ‘I thought you knew, old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host.’(Pg.45). Which has lead to the chain reaction directly towards the curiosity of his past, and beginning outcome of him living the socially rich exterior. “You live in West Egg’, she remarked contemptuously, ‘I know somebody there.’ ‘I don’t know a single--’ ‘You must know Gatsby.”(Pg.18) Rumors and misleading facts towards what this man’s life beholds, and places its target directly on his social actions, where the questions arise of why he doesn’t socialize with having such spontaneous parties, if he killed a man, or if he’s a bootlegger, or even if he’s an owner of a chain of drug stores! Everyone is simply trying to strive to be wealthy, which is suggested to be the key to success, to have more class, and finding more ways to have a better life, which happens to be its own type of success in social
acceptance.
Gatsby has acquired money and built this type of social status to not enjoy them, where he proves his unhappiness and uninterested in his own parties, but because he has and always has been in love with the woman who lives across the bay, whose dock has a green light at the end of it, which is Gatsby’s lighted hope, and that woman is Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan’s wife.
I could say that love is Gatsby’s American dream, but the mystery is if he really loves her, or her money. Love and money is the American dream, the world’s dream, but there will never be enough money, fame, and love because every time we get what we wanted, we then realize that we want more. This book obtains that in reality we want to go back to a time to that place that we felt safe, which is when we were happy, pure, and innocent. Which from his dream, just lead to more violence and corruption that he was trying to get away from. All Gatsby wants is the innocence and purity that’s stitched with
Daisy.