Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
“The American Dream: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about the “American Dream.“ In the Great Gatsby, the dream is that anyone can gain happiness by being wealthy and having power. To gain his happiness Jay Gatsby attempts to get the love that he once had before, of his first love, Daisy. The only problem with Jay’s dream is that …
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…wealth. Even though story does not go into detail about how Gatsby’s money was made, though by reading the book we can guess it wasn't made by legal means. Gatsby's dream was doomed to fail because of his lack of morals. This tells us that there is something wrong with the “American Dream” mentality, just like the get rich quick schemes of today, Jay is trying to buy Daisy’s love, not obtain it.
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