Success In The Great Gatsby

Many people say wealth is the key to measuring success; they are wrong. Success should be measured upon ones happiness, the friends one has and if their goals in life have been attained. It is like saying you can never buy happiness. The American dream is often considered being affluent, but once one becomes rich- if ever- that's all he ever gains and won't be truly happy or successful. This is confirmed time after time again in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in other readings and movies; it has in all probability been proven in your own experiences also. Success is like a rubber-band ball where you keep building and building upon it in hopes to make it a truly grand item to boast.

One main aspect in determining and retaining success is by keeping those true friends that would have ones back in a heartbeat, the type of friends who would help one out of any situation. Nick, the main character in
If a person keeps going for a goal that will never be possible they will fall. This way of downfall happens to Gatsby in the end of the story," Daisy gleamed like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor. (page 150)" The fact that Daisy gleamed like silver shows that Gatsby's largest goal was to attain Daisy which would never happen, and so he ultimately falls. Billy Madison, the main character of the self-titled Adam Sandler movie, lives off his father's money in a pathetic lifestyle of drinking and doing drugs. Once his father says that he is going to retire and not give Billy the business, he then makes a deal that if makes it through school in the time span of a month then Billy would gain his father's company. In the end, with the help of his friends, he finally attains his goal and gains the head of his fathers company. It's like if one tries to build their rubber-band ball to large the bands will eventually