Great Gatsby
Jhunuen Carlotti
Mrs. Licoscos
Literature Per. 4
The Great Gatsby Essay
Gatsby and His Non-American Dream Everybody wants to have that American Dream. Whatever or whoever it is, it is a dream. A dream to some people can mean like a goal or fantasy wise. A dream in general is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. But an American Dream is the traditional social ideals of the United States, such as equality, democracy, and material prosperity. Jay Gatsby does not have an American Dream in the book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby is a fairly young man who is trying to blend in with society. Long before Gatsby was “great,” he was a small town kid with big dreams. Jay Gatsby throws really big parties at his mansion. Everybody in the entire town is pretty much invited. “The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s name” (3.4). Although he has really big parties he still feels lonesome. Like something is missing in his life. Everybody thinks he has it all but in reality he doesn’t. Jay Gatsby did manage to have money in his life but not love. "’Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay’" (140). Daisy is the woman and Gatsby is in love with. He and Daisy were a couple back before he entered the war. His Dream is to get her back and get married. “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a
Mrs. Licoscos
Literature Per. 4
The Great Gatsby Essay
Gatsby and His Non-American Dream Everybody wants to have that American Dream. Whatever or whoever it is, it is a dream. A dream to some people can mean like a goal or fantasy wise. A dream in general is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. But an American Dream is the traditional social ideals of the United States, such as equality, democracy, and material prosperity. Jay Gatsby does not have an American Dream in the book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby is a fairly young man who is trying to blend in with society. Long before Gatsby was “great,” he was a small town kid with big dreams. Jay Gatsby throws really big parties at his mansion. Everybody in the entire town is pretty much invited. “The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s name” (3.4). Although he has really big parties he still feels lonesome. Like something is missing in his life. Everybody thinks he has it all but in reality he doesn’t. Jay Gatsby did manage to have money in his life but not love. "’Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay’" (140). Daisy is the woman and Gatsby is in love with. He and Daisy were a couple back before he entered the war. His Dream is to get her back and get married. “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a