Great Gatsby and the American Dream

The Great Gatsby and the American conceive of There is in reality no set definition of what the American Dream is, every unmatchable has different views on what they enamor it as. The main idea of the American Dream is pretty a good deal making it big and being successful in purport, having everything you need, wealth, prosperity, love and happiness. Jay Gatsby portrays the American Dream in some senses entirely non to its full potential.Throughout the new The Great Gatsby the American Dream isnt shown in its positive fresh but, more(prenominal) of the opposite of that more of the downfall or failure of it. Everyone cute to be maintenance the American Dream the pursuit of happiness in liveness. In the 1920s instead of going for things that brought happiness everyone seemed to revolve roughly gold, wealth, and power. Instead of finding happiness with what they had they were all trying to attain specie and power and believed this would lead to happiness.If they had all that already they took it all for granted and didnt see everything that they had right on that point in front of them. Although it may piss seemed someone had it all on the outside, once you in reality knew the person you could see that they werent living the best life and werent that much purify than anyone else. The American Dream took a lot to really achieve and no one really lived the actual dream because of many reasons but they were living some aspects of it.The three main characters fail to pursue the American Dream to its entirety for Gatsby he tried to be something he wasnt unless so he could buzz off Daisy and love, without this he was zipper for Daisy it was because of greed she lived for money and favorable status which got in the steering of her happiness and being with who she really loved and for tomcat his money gets in the way of morals and he took everything he had in front of him for granted. Jay Gatsby went from nothing to something to try to win al l over Daisy.His American Dream wasnt about having material things, although it involved having to get them, instead it was trying to get the love of Daisy. Earlier in his life when he first fell in love with Daisy he was a poor man and Daisy didnt want that at all. Due to Gatsbys low social standing she wouldnt be with him. Gatsby wanted a better life and he thought he could do it if he put his mind to it, which is also a part of the American Dream. last he got money and became rich but he did this by illicit methods.This is the complete opposite of what the American Dream is because its supposed to be achieved through good virtue and hard work. He threw extravagant parties but to try and get close to Daisy, hoping that she would show up to them, but he himself never actually attended his parties. He wasnt living a very great life as it seemed to everyone else, it was all a lie. The precisely thing that gave his life meaning was Daisy and that was the one thing he couldnt have .She only came back to Gatsby after Gatsby attained his millions and was part of the high social class, but his life still wasnt very stable. This shows that she let wealth get in the way of her love. Daisy loved Gatsby but because of the fact that there was really no stability in his life she didnt observe comfortable with it and wouldnt leave tomcat for him. She was after the money and because tomcat was settled down she decided to stay with him where it was safe. Greed and the fact that money took priority over everything with her was what held her back from happiness and living the American Dream.Tom was cheater on Daisy but she still stayed with him regardless just because she was comfortable with that life-style of being in the upper class and being seen as wealthy. Tom was a rich, handsome, successful man with a wife and family, and everything going for him, but instead of being happy with what he had he went and ruined others lives. He cheated on Daisy with Myrtle who w as married to Wilson and destroyed their marriage. His money got in the way of his morals, family, and living the American Dream.Tom and Daisy somewhat represent the American Dream through their wealth and prosperity this was only a part of the dream not the whole picture because they still werent happy they just possess the material items. The American Dream is contradicted, everyone wanted it but no one lived it for what it was supposed to be. Gatsby in the end sees himself as a failure when Daisy chooses Tom instead of him. The failure of Gatsbys hoped for life relates to the failure of the American Dream. Without his dream Gatsby has nothing nothing to keep him going, no direction, and no purpose to live.He was unsatisfied with life and in the end, Wilson had killed him. This shows that Jay Gatsbys American Dream didnt go anywhere and wasnt satisfied to its full extent although he attempted to gain ground he failed. The extent of the novel The Great Gatsby representing the Ame rican Dream is more of showing that the American Dream isnt ever achieved and doesnt always work out the way you want it to or think it should. The American Dream is hard to achieve and it seems as if its impossible for anyone to actually achieve every aspect of it, so it is just what it is, a dream.