Happiness

Benjamin Franklin, the first minister for the United States, a young taught scientist, and one of the most important Founding Fathers of our Nation, once proclaimed “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You’ve got to catch it yourself.” Shown in popular literature, the American Dream is a national philosophy of the United States, a set of principles where freedom takes account of the opportunity for prosperity and accomplishment, and tries to commit a rising stasis attained through hard work. Throughout the course of history, the citizens of this amazing planet have always been undertaking the struggle for grasping the American Dream. Although the goals of an individual might be different than another’s, the final goal is similar for is to obtain happiness. Famous literature such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, celebrated work such as Of Mice and Men done by John Steinbeck, and Mark Twain’s popular The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn all portray the happiness all the characters try to gain through their dream, the unfairness that life may award, and that the necessity to be thankful is greatly needed.
In his most famous work The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald draws attention to the dream of title-based character, Jay Gatsby. This man was a millionaire, living extremely well-off. When young, Gatsby was unfortunately poor and it was hard for him to rise up in the high clique of the wealthy. Because of this, his dream girl Daisy could not marry him and his love was lost. Hoping to strive to become happy and rich, Gatsby, when later found out in the book, began to smuggle alcohol and through it became extremely wealthy. But for some reason, his happiness was never achieved and his low-spirited mood matched the permanent one of “Winnie the Pooh’s” Eeyore. Fitzgerald, himself being a pursuer of happiness, displayed Gatsby as a man who dreamed about a life of happiness. “He had come long way to this blue lawn, and his dream