The American Dream
The concept of “The American Dream” is said to be the living dream, the individual’s concept of aiming to achieve prosperity and happiness. The American Dream is something that an individual wants to accomplish a dream. It means a dream of social order in which each person would be able to attain a better and richer life. Most people pursuit the American Dream as a chance to become a real dream, their dream to have better jobs and better homes. The living of upper social life and having a good career, because it will make life easier, and it will make nothing to worry about. A big question: is the American Dream really possible? It was originated in the early days in which immigrants came to America searching for their dreams. The American Dream plays a big role during 1920s, by which showing what happened in “The Great Gatsby,” everybody wants to get rich and attain a better life by having a better work and achieving equality. The values have changed, instead of having an equality, they just want to get rich. Scott Fitzgerald shows in his book that people are not treated equally. Gatsby appears to have “an extraordinary gift of hope,” and he sacrifices himself to fulfill his dream. He struggles to get into the upper social class. At the end, he fails to attain his dream completely because he gets killed. Mental values were a dream in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows how Nick caraway is a pragmatic man, still striving for something. The money is not his dream but the moral values, pursuing honesty. He says: “I am the one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” Pp; 49. Daisy lives her American Dream with her husband, who has lots of money with no more aims in her life. She lives for the moment of having that luxury life and doesn’t think of anything else. Tom never work, he got his money from his parents. He has a mistress and wife. He live a materialistic life. Dreaming to have money and have a better social class was not an attainable dream