... too great, thus overworking the Dream. The American Dream requires one to have a goal, yet goals tend to be too ambitious, as is in Gatsby's case, in which he wants to achieve something that is impossible. Fitzgerald shows Gatsby's ambitions through the thoughts of Nick Carraway, a close friend ... achieves the American Dream through his prestige and wealth. Yet he does not achieve his truest desires of getting Daisy because the dream is "blue- as the ocean, its mysteries cannot be fully grasped. Eventually, our ultimate goals elude us as it eludes Gatsby. Furthermore, the dream tempts u...

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• Grade Level: High School

... their sense of wonder with Gatsby's hope. The book also seems to investigate how Americans lost their spiritual purpose as material success wiped out spiritual goals. The lives of the Buchanans, therefore, filled with material comforts and luxuries, and empty of purpose, represent this condition. Daisy's lament is especially ... a sense of his own identity. Certainly, Gatsby, with 'his extraordinary gift of hope', set against the empty existence of Tom and Daisy, seems to achieve a heroic greatness. Fitzgerald goes on to state that the failure of hopes and dreams, the failure of the Amer...

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• Grade Level: High School

... dream of having rabbits because he has done wrong. When George discovers what has happened he knows the others will kill Lennie he realizes that he will never accomplish his goals when he tells Candy " "I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her (the farm), He (Lennie) usta like to hear about it so much I got ... I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich."" (Miller 33) by Ben has always remained with Willy driving him to achieve the same "greatness- as Ben did. Willy lives by the philosophy that ...

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• Grade Level: High School