Similarities Between The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

At a glance, The Great Gatsby seems to be a tale of hope and tragedy upon the man known as Gatsby. The story is also centered on the concept of the American Dream, a concept that ensures freedom and equality to all of its citizens and that hard work will bring success and riches. The American dream was primarily gestured to those of immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity that was absent from their lives. However, Fitzgerald’s theme of such dream is proved to act upon the instance of ideal between reality and illusion. Fitzgerald’s constant mention of windows and eyes represent the ideas that recognize the actual perception of reality or the illusions that dilute said perception as a false reality the significant of such perception is supported

One indication of such relationship is of the concept of love. Gatsby‘s thought of love is his longing to be with daisy as it was in the past. He constantly seeks out Daisy through his parties to change the past through the future. Gatsby’s hope and dream of such outcome characterizes his approach as being a romantic, the longing of daisy overpowers and blinds him of reason. Contrary to such characteristics, Myrtle isn’t composed of such emotion. As Myrtle described in her reason for marrying Wilson being “I married him because I thought he was gentlemen, she said finally. I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn’t to fit to lick my shoe.” She isn’t necessary blinded by emotion compared with Gatsby but rather for her own reason and personal gain of status and wealth. Myrtle only seeks materialistic objects and wealth that differs from Gatsby’s hope of a future with

Gatsby’s origins were of Jimmy Gatz, a rural boy that grew up in North Dakota. Gatsby was poor but, he fully believed in the American dream as signified as his schedule that by working hard he would be successful and amass wealth. However, the man known as Gatsby seems void of the American Dream but, rather an illusion of his interpretation of such dream. Gatsby constantly tries to use his money for Daisy which features as his own American Dream. In the case of Myrtle, She married into lesser status. Myrtle described her marriage to Wilson as “I thought he was a gentleman”, she thought that he was of wealth and her drive of riches resulted in their marriage. Myrtle’s materialistic personality is one that symbolizes her interpretation of the American dream as amassing wealth for status and power. Myrtle’s constant desire for wealth is evident in the role of the individual in an aristocracy. During the 1920s, Women had limited rights and even lesser roles in society. However, the influence of wealth in a aristocracy indicate that Myrtle’s interpretation of the American Dream is of a man in the instance that she has to follow and marry men to gain wealth and overall hold a title as a part of the aristocracy. While, men such as Gatsby are able to increase their status by their own hands and work as represented in the American