Essay On The Great Gatsby The American Dream
The American Dream for The Great Gatsby
Even though we call the american American, is it really american? In the book The Great Gatsby, many of these characters are not American, but they are still living the American dream. While some characters are living the American others are not and what set them apart will astonish you.
Just like humanity, the American Dream has two sides to it. One side one where you make a boat load of money with very little work or none at all and the other side is where you work hard in life just to make your very special someone happy. That last part can be inferred as an opinion because quite frankly, in America most couples don’t want to make one another happy. They want to pull each other in the opposite direction. We might call the American Dream American, but is it really American? in the Great Gatsby …show more content…
An example of this relationship is Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. When Nick Carraway meet Gatsby he questioned why Gatsby was doing all of this for all of these people and Gatsby’s response was that he wanted to meet a girl named Daisy who came over to his parties every night. Carraway help Gatsby by setting Gatsby on the right track to get at Daisy and to make sure that the people Gatsby was interfering with was the right kind of people Nick would meet. Nick was Gatsby’s life gardener who cut out all of the weeds in Gatsby’s life. Who also made sure that Gatsby was set straight on the love of his life. Nick was the brother Gatsby never had. The American Dream in the Great Gatsby can be seen as a symbolic relationship, where each person helps out one another. When Gatsby tell Nick was there to pick him up and when Martell died Tom was their to make sure that George knew who the perpetrator was. The overall dream in The Great Gatsby was not American it was an East and a West side
Even though we call the american American, is it really american? In the book The Great Gatsby, many of these characters are not American, but they are still living the American dream. While some characters are living the American others are not and what set them apart will astonish you.
Just like humanity, the American Dream has two sides to it. One side one where you make a boat load of money with very little work or none at all and the other side is where you work hard in life just to make your very special someone happy. That last part can be inferred as an opinion because quite frankly, in America most couples don’t want to make one another happy. They want to pull each other in the opposite direction. We might call the American Dream American, but is it really American? in the Great Gatsby …show more content…
An example of this relationship is Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. When Nick Carraway meet Gatsby he questioned why Gatsby was doing all of this for all of these people and Gatsby’s response was that he wanted to meet a girl named Daisy who came over to his parties every night. Carraway help Gatsby by setting Gatsby on the right track to get at Daisy and to make sure that the people Gatsby was interfering with was the right kind of people Nick would meet. Nick was Gatsby’s life gardener who cut out all of the weeds in Gatsby’s life. Who also made sure that Gatsby was set straight on the love of his life. Nick was the brother Gatsby never had. The American Dream in the Great Gatsby can be seen as a symbolic relationship, where each person helps out one another. When Gatsby tell Nick was there to pick him up and when Martell died Tom was their to make sure that George knew who the perpetrator was. The overall dream in The Great Gatsby was not American it was an East and a West side