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The Great Gatsby


            The American Dream has become nothing but a pipe dream; many people strive for it, but very few actually achieve it. It has been sold as a vacation plan for travelers, as a gimmick for immigrants, and internally, as a ladder of success. The vacation plans are economical, the gimmicks always bring in new faces and revenue, but the internal ladder has a few broken rungs, that is, many people stumble on the way. It seems, consciously or subconsciously, that we are all struggling with our own "American Dream." Most Americans feel the need to better themselves with education, which is to strive beyond the educational and monetary goals that our parents had stopped at. That parental instinct to provide a better life, education, and material wealth for our own future children is a goal that many can relate to. In The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, the idea of what happens when the American Deam goes bad. Jay Gatsby suffered from this American Dream and he falters at it because of two crucial things essential for his success: he fails to acquire Daisy and he believes too much in the idea of the American Dream itself, that a happy ending is inevitable. .
             Like Jay Gatsby, some people have their "Daisy," that is, the one person they lust after, like a movie star or an icon. That one person fuels a thought, whether it is for a second or a lifetime, that only through hard work and monetary gain would that person be able to be charmed. Gatsby's dream, in order to be rendered a success, required the acquisition of Daisy. All the wealth he had procured, all the stories he had fabricated, were for Daisy's benefit, not his. As a young man, he did not have the backing of wealth to marry Daisy. Now, however, he has come back into her life with the required funding, and expects her to love him again. " "I"m going to fix everything just the way it was before she"ll see"" (117). Gatsby believes that if everything returns to the way it was before, his American Dream will have come true.


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