What Is The American Dream Really Achievable
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Gatsby’s American Dream Is the American Dream really achievable? The dream is the ideal scenario that every U.S. citizen strives for, where everyone has equal opportunity to achieve success. The dream is simply to become rich. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a character named Gatsby. While writing this book Fitzgerald had the American Dream in mind. J. Gatsby is a great example of someone who has really achieved the American Dream. Gatsby defines the realism of the American Dream. In the writing of The Great Gatsby it shows what the dream is and how it can be achieved. He shows this through his character, Gatsby. The American Dream also means you don’t want to do much to get rich. Gatsby is known …show more content…
for having great parties at his huge house, able to get the things he wants, and no worries with money. He does what he wants when ever he wants. Gatsby makes his money through bootlegging and illegal services. It is found out through Tom that Gatsby makes his money illegally, “I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were. He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong.” (Fitzgerald 134) Though it is illegal ways the money is made, he has it which means he has no worries with money.
One of the big things in America, that defines how well you are doing in life, is having land with a big home and a nice car.
James Gatz has both of these things. He has a very large home with a ton of land. Nick, the narrator of the story, told us that Gatsby’s home was, “a colossal affair by any standard-it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of land and garden.” (Fitzgerald 5) As beautiful as Gatsby’s home was he often had big, extravagant parties. Gatsby’s parties were so big only a few people were really invited, like Nick said, “I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited-they went there.” (Fitzgerald 41) His car was one of the nicest cars in New York, “I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen Suns.” (Fitzgerald 64)
People like Gatsby prove the American Dream can be achieved, but the ways they do it means that America is declining. As discovered earlier Gatsby makes his money illegally. Making money illegally is one of the fastest and easiest ways to do it. Fitzgerald is saying that America is declining because the people only care about money. Money can make people go insane. Gatsby wanted to be rich for Daisy
to show her he loved her and that he could take care of her. Instead of doing things the right way, working hard, he took the easy path of bootlegging.
Gatsby had achieved the American Dream of being rich, and quick too. The money was made bootlegging. With that money he was able to have a huge house with amazing parties and a nice car. He proved the dream was achievable, even if he used illegal ways which shows how America is declining. . The answer to the previous question is yes, the American Dream is really achievable but there is a right and wrong way to do it. Which will you choose, the easy, illegal path or the right, honest way?
Gatsby’s American Dream Is the American Dream really achievable? The dream is the ideal scenario that every U.S. citizen strives for, where everyone has equal opportunity to achieve success. The dream is simply to become rich. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a character named Gatsby. While writing this book Fitzgerald had the American Dream in mind. J. Gatsby is a great example of someone who has really achieved the American Dream. Gatsby defines the realism of the American Dream. In the writing of The Great Gatsby it shows what the dream is and how it can be achieved. He shows this through his character, Gatsby. The American Dream also means you don’t want to do much to get rich. Gatsby is known …show more content…
for having great parties at his huge house, able to get the things he wants, and no worries with money. He does what he wants when ever he wants. Gatsby makes his money through bootlegging and illegal services. It is found out through Tom that Gatsby makes his money illegally, “I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were. He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong.” (Fitzgerald 134) Though it is illegal ways the money is made, he has it which means he has no worries with money.
One of the big things in America, that defines how well you are doing in life, is having land with a big home and a nice car.
James Gatz has both of these things. He has a very large home with a ton of land. Nick, the narrator of the story, told us that Gatsby’s home was, “a colossal affair by any standard-it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of land and garden.” (Fitzgerald 5) As beautiful as Gatsby’s home was he often had big, extravagant parties. Gatsby’s parties were so big only a few people were really invited, like Nick said, “I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited-they went there.” (Fitzgerald 41) His car was one of the nicest cars in New York, “I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen Suns.” (Fitzgerald 64)
People like Gatsby prove the American Dream can be achieved, but the ways they do it means that America is declining. As discovered earlier Gatsby makes his money illegally. Making money illegally is one of the fastest and easiest ways to do it. Fitzgerald is saying that America is declining because the people only care about money. Money can make people go insane. Gatsby wanted to be rich for Daisy
to show her he loved her and that he could take care of her. Instead of doing things the right way, working hard, he took the easy path of bootlegging.
Gatsby had achieved the American Dream of being rich, and quick too. The money was made bootlegging. With that money he was able to have a huge house with amazing parties and a nice car. He proved the dream was achievable, even if he used illegal ways which shows how America is declining. . The answer to the previous question is yes, the American Dream is really achievable but there is a right and wrong way to do it. Which will you choose, the easy, illegal path or the right, honest way?