The Significance Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald was Labeled as “the great American novel” his character Jay Gatsby, who represents the American dream in this novel. This fictional character accomplished everything that everyone dreams of, wealth and recognition. He desires of having Daisy Buchanan and induce her to tell Tom Buchanan, she never loved him. She was the engine that runs his American dream. Yet, F. Scott Fitzgerald didn’t wrote this novel to show the impression that It’s a love story, but the heights people go to achieve their American dream. This novel was shown to represent how Americans tries to change themselves to something they want to be, like Gatsby who done everything for Daisy. Within the novel, Fitzgerald mentions in page
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WolfShiem. The argument heated up every second, especially when Daisy has said she loved Gatsby yet at the same time she still loves Tom. Gatsby was taught by Mr. WolfShiem, the ways to bootleg and infiltrate the stock market to gain content to sell off in the black market. In the page 171 of the novel, Mr. WolfShiem has told Nick that “[He] raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right away he was a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was at Oggsford I knew I could use him good. I got him to join up in the American Legion and he used to stand high there. Right off he did some work for a client of mine up to Albany” (Fitzgerald) Giving the feel that Gatsby did have connections with the underworld, in order to gain recognition from Daisy, he had to find a way to become filthy rich and quick. As Daisy finds out about this and with Jay’s sudden outburst in chapter 7 page 134, she lost interest on him and feared for the worst as he “.., began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly” (Fitzgerald) he knew at this moment that she wasn’t his, and she never has been. He’s done everything for her, yet a single action, a couple of sentences and everything is ruin, he lost his dream especially when Tom mentions in chapter 7 page 135 that Gatsby has “... realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over ” (Fitzgerald) knowing that Jay lost, he lost Daisy, and never truly manage to accomplish his dream. Even if it does interpret as a love story, they scope behind it holds more than just
WolfShiem. The argument heated up every second, especially when Daisy has said she loved Gatsby yet at the same time she still loves Tom. Gatsby was taught by Mr. WolfShiem, the ways to bootleg and infiltrate the stock market to gain content to sell off in the black market. In the page 171 of the novel, Mr. WolfShiem has told Nick that “[He] raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right away he was a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was at Oggsford I knew I could use him good. I got him to join up in the American Legion and he used to stand high there. Right off he did some work for a client of mine up to Albany” (Fitzgerald) Giving the feel that Gatsby did have connections with the underworld, in order to gain recognition from Daisy, he had to find a way to become filthy rich and quick. As Daisy finds out about this and with Jay’s sudden outburst in chapter 7 page 134, she lost interest on him and feared for the worst as he “.., began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly” (Fitzgerald) he knew at this moment that she wasn’t his, and she never has been. He’s done everything for her, yet a single action, a couple of sentences and everything is ruin, he lost his dream especially when Tom mentions in chapter 7 page 135 that Gatsby has “... realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over ” (Fitzgerald) knowing that Jay lost, he lost Daisy, and never truly manage to accomplish his dream. Even if it does interpret as a love story, they scope behind it holds more than just