Do you ever sometimes wish you have everything in life? In fact, each and everyone in the world wish or want something. Like love, hope, wealth and etc. These topics are seen in the book called “The Great Gatsby.” In America, as a whole, they have this “American Dream” where they all want to be independent and being optimistic about their future, pretty much everything great in life. But not everyone in America achieves these dreams because of the distraction around, sometimes people get caught up with love, many people would want love more than having hope. Many people also, seek for love who doesn’t know how it feels like. This novel shows the idea that being rich can help people bring happiness into their lives and can help them become independent, which is a major part of the American dream; However, people use each other to fulfill their personal dreams, which holds them back from experiencing real love.
In the book Great Gatsby, it shows many details on how money helps the characters achieve those American dreams, not only having money, but being optimistic helped those characters also. The American Dream is all about moving from poverty to wealth, drowning hopelessness to having hope, being trapped to becoming free, and many more upward movements. In chapter one of the Great Gatsby it shows few examples of being optimistic and in pg. 2 it says, “There was something truly wonderful about him [Gatsby], a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life—he was like one of those complicated machines that show the presence of an earthquake ten thousand miles away. He had an extraordinary gift of hope, a romantic readiness which I have never found in any other person and which is not likely I shall ever find again.” This quote tells us how a person like Gatsby can be so optimistic about life, and who has a gift of hope that never gives up no matter how hard the trail is. This event shows how Gatsby took five years of trying to get a life style