The Great Gatsby Pursuing The American Dream
Jay Gatsby achieved the American Dream by the devotion he has for his love, Daisy. The American Dream can be achieved by becoming rich and successful, from starting with nothing. Gatsby didn’t realize himself that he seized the American Dream, only to care for his love’s approval. He couldn’t “win” his love’s heart five years prior, because he was a “poor boy.” Taking chances and achieving goals, took Gatsby further than he imagined. Allowing his love for Daisy, blind him, the consequence have finally caught up to him. Pursuing the American Dream is taking chances, going through obstacles, making harsh decisions. Gatsby believed that he would do anything to get back that “one true love,” he once had. He found himself lying to get around what
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Gatsby threw the most extravagant parties, to lure his love with his money. “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”(Fitzgerald 39) The parties became a beacon of chance, every time the parties got bigger the beacon got brighter. Gatsby believed, the more he put into these parties, that he could bring the green light closer to him. But Daisy believed the saying, “rich girls don’t marry poor boys,” is still true. “I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth”(Fitzgerald 2) The author explains that a person, that was born and raised rich, are not equal to people that were born poor, and made it rich. Gatsby and Daisy, found themselves in a situation of this problem. Gatsby achieved the American Dream of being a poor boy, and rising to the top. Daisy questioned time from time when she was with Tom. "Here, deares'." She groped around in a wastebasket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. "Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mind. Say: 'Daisy's change' her mine!'" (Fitzgerald 76) She questioned what life would like if she waited for Jay. Believing for the best, she made a “mistake.” When taking the pearls from Tom, she realized that it was her last solution to making everyone
Gatsby threw the most extravagant parties, to lure his love with his money. “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”(Fitzgerald 39) The parties became a beacon of chance, every time the parties got bigger the beacon got brighter. Gatsby believed, the more he put into these parties, that he could bring the green light closer to him. But Daisy believed the saying, “rich girls don’t marry poor boys,” is still true. “I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth”(Fitzgerald 2) The author explains that a person, that was born and raised rich, are not equal to people that were born poor, and made it rich. Gatsby and Daisy, found themselves in a situation of this problem. Gatsby achieved the American Dream of being a poor boy, and rising to the top. Daisy questioned time from time when she was with Tom. "Here, deares'." She groped around in a wastebasket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. "Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mind. Say: 'Daisy's change' her mine!'" (Fitzgerald 76) She questioned what life would like if she waited for Jay. Believing for the best, she made a “mistake.” When taking the pearls from Tom, she realized that it was her last solution to making everyone