How Does Velma Kelly Create Happiness In The Great Gatsby

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The American Dream
In the 1920s

In The Great Gatsby and Chicago, Fitzgerald and Marshall show that one can have money, power, and fame, but the American Dream is more about having someone to share your happiness with. Money does not lead to happiness because even the richest, most powerful person in the world, at the end of the day, is not satisfied without people to share their life with. Everyone needs that one special person that helps them and supports them. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby has a lot of money, but isn’t really happy because he has created a vision of himself and Daisy is living in a perfect world, which lead him to destroy his own life because he is refusing to see the truth. One night after the party
Gatsby called Nick. Gatsby wanted to explain his fantastic plan to Nick about how he was gonna recover Daisies happiness once again but this with him. Gatsby tells Nick, “I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before” (110). Gatsby has a way of seeing the American Dream as possible; perhaps he is searching and has feels he has discovered how to live a perfect happiness world, and that's with Daisy, but he just has to find the way and make Daisy understand what Gatsby has to offer, which is a happy perfect world. However, after Gatsby asks Daisy to leave Tom and go with her, she tells him that he wants too much. Daisy is playing with his feelings because she tells him that she loves him, but Tom, on the other side, is manipulating Daisy, saying that it's not true. Daisy admits, “Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom “ (133). Gatsby is missing the truth, that he can’t erase five years. Tom isn't living the truth either, he still thinks he is in a world where he can control his surroundings like some type of king, but he realizes that Daisy has been cheating on him, and thus he realizes he cannot control everything. Gatsby thinks that because he made all the money, now he can control Daisy, but he refuses to realize that this is not true. Daisy will never leave Tom. Tom basically says that he isn't living as happy as he was with Daisy as when they met. But that he is planning to change and pretend to play it to be happy with Daisy and live a perfect American Dream. Jay Gatsby and Tom then start arguing for Daisy and Jay and Tom don't know that they're basically herding her feelings in a way that she feels abused just because she is scared of tom the guy she's been with for years and the same guy that's basically not letting her live her happiness as the American Dream is described to be happy. Tom tells Gatsby, Daisy ain't leaving with him “ Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger.” (133) Tom is doing everything to try and buy off Daisy. But Tom is still blind, he don't want to let Daisy go of his leash because he basically doesn't like her if he did he wouldn't treat her the way she treats her. Money isn't always the best answer to everything. In this case, at times people get cocky about their money. “ I know am not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends-in the modern world.” (130) This cockiness is a problem because once you start acting that way it's hard to control it and people start noticing and you can also lose the close ones because of your actions.

In Chicago, Velma Kelly has a lot of money, but isn’t really HAPPY.
Velma Kelly is a famous Jazz singer, who is also in jail for murdering her husband, and her sister who was having an affair. In the song, “Cell Block Tango,” she describes what happened, from her perspective. Velma walked into their hotel room and she sees her sister having sex with her husband. After that, she supposedly doesn’t remember what happened, but they were both dead. Well Velma kelly does not just proved she was not happy with what happened but she also lost her concerts she was gonna perform in. In Chicago Characters in this movie contribute to step away from reality in order to hypnotize themselves in a dream like state of mind. The public is eating up her story and she loves the
attention. Power does not lead to happiness because many of us don't need power because it's a free country. Characters in both pieces so that they're power hungry all they care is for power. Jay Gatsby’s dream is to obtain happiness, represented by Daisy's love, through power. Gatsby is never really accepted into filthy rich society and he can never attain Daisy. The American dream would seem to command that money and power assures happiness, or to get what you want. In the great Gatsby also power is something shown as popularity you have power, your popular and to them that was important. In Chicago we see the meaning of power in a different way. Characters in Chicago for them power is something similar to The Great Gatsby being popular and known by people and that's basically all they care for. Roxie Hart has power, but isn’t really happy because she is in jail, but doesn't really care for her husband. She is a very cookie person all she cares is to be famous and get her name in the papers that's her number one priority. Also getting out of jail is thanks to Amos heart her husband because he paid five thousand dollars to the lawyer to get her out. She becomes enemies with Velma and Velma starts noticing and starts hating on Roxie. Fame is something both of these pieces share of.
Gatsby's rise to fame was first started by his meeting with Dan Cody, a independent gold prospector. Cody was like a mentor to Gatsby very important person to Gatsby. Daisy married Tom Buchanan when Gatsby left overseas. Gatsby's rise to fame in trying to win Daisy back from Tom is also part of his destruction. He started doing illegal things. Trying to win back Daisy (a married woman) was dangerous as well, especially how heartless and rancorous Tom Buchanan was. In Chicago, Roxie Hart dreams of fame, most clearly being a star in the show, and plans on sleeping her way to the top with someone other than her husband, the extremely trusting and loyalty of Amos Hart. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death line together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the rope. Mama Morton, who is the jail administrator is in business with Billy Flynn. Just for the money people can do whatever you
want. In Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, in his past created an illusion, a vision of himself and Daisy is living in a perfect world. This led him to destroy his own life in many ways. It is Gatsby's ideals and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality, and to the path of his life. At times life can be easy for rich, but never the best. As poor it's a different story you can be poor and still be happy to work hard to earn what you deserve at the end of the day. In The Great Gatsby and Chicago, Fitzgerald and Marshall show that one can have money, power, and fame, but the American Dream is more about having someone to share your happiness with. Never believe that money could ever buy happiness or love, it can bring you down in many ways. That you wouldn't ever imagine by.