Effects Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

The American Dream is interpreted as someone starting at the bottom on the social or economical level and working hard towards success, luxury, and comfort. This dream shows that anyone, no matter who you are, can become successful and live a happy life. The American Dream is symbolized by having wealth, luxurious belongings, and healthy/happy family. The dream is represented by the ideas of someone who is self-sufficient and works hard to achieve the goal they placed in front of themselves to become successful. The novel The Great Gatsby shows how the American Dream plays out for many people in the 1920’s, which is a time where many dreams were debased and had conflict due to many different causes. Although the American Dream can lead to success and happiness, it can also lead to conflict; for example in The Great Gatsby Daisy, Myrtle, and Mr. Gatsby are lead to corruption, which destroys their chance at their American Dream. Initially, in The Great Gatsby Daisy’s American Dream is to achieve happiness, but she finds that she marries the wrong man and is not truly happy. Daisy ends up finding out that her husband Tom is hiding something from her. Jordan
He has the ambition to find and win over Daisy because he refuses to give up on her. His love for Daisy takes over his whole life and his sole focus becomes about pleasing her. Gatsby cares a lot about how people see him; this is why he wants everything for Daisy to be perfect. Gatsby tries to be the perfect man and appear as if he has no flaws. While trying to achieve his American Dream and win over Daisy, he encounters many conflicts because his only focus in life is Daisy. Gatsby is blinded by the American Dream, which causes him to overlook what is really important in life. Mr. Gatsby does not end up getting what he wants because he ends up being taken over by who he thinks he needs to be, instead of being whom he