The Great Gatsby The American Dream Meaning

Throughout the history of this nation, the American dream is known to symbolize what we are as a country. Over millions of perspectives that is melted and is form into the America dream. It seems that there is not a right or wrong answer to anyone American dream. What we do not realize is that it something that contradict the whole meaning of the American dream. Some people of the American dream have a feeling that it is a denial of what their dream is. Somehow at the end of the day, they are willing to keep striving. We cannot forget that we are “a city that is sitting upon the hill” and with that it seems that we should address other about the real meaning of exceptional nation. Society has a significant way of portraying the American dream.

It shows the view of how it a lie and the way you could reach the dream is survive of the fittest, to pretending to love the American dream when deep inside it something that make you feel like it is a nightmare. For the American dream, it is to accomplish your goals and the will to do anything to achieve that dream in life. If you work hard enough for it then it will pay off. If you work hard enough for it then nit will pay off. In the movie The Great Gatsby, Gatsby was a man that was not in the beginning with the rich and famous. The story behind Gatsby is that he was a poor young man that fell in love with a young lady named Daisy. Daisy said that she would wait for him after the war. She ended up marrying someone else. The way the Gatsby reached for the riches was by doing illegal crime. The money was not his dream. Wealth was the only thing that prevent them from being in a relationship. Within that society, wealthy women were looked down upon if they fell in love with a someone that was in a lower class. That is why they were not able to be together. This is where his

The ones that has the white picket fence and must have perfect family is just a lie. In American Beauty, Lester Burnham is unhappy with his job, family, and life. He ended up without a job, but is happier than what he has ever been. He felt control in the life that he was in. Thousands would kill to be in his shoe, but Lester is just tired of it. In this film, it shows the opposite of the American dream. Lester starts working at a low-income job and seems to be much happier than ever. A Streetcar Named Desire and American Beauty has a scene when both males show examples of violence by breaking things. It was to show their masculinity and to have control. The women felt intimidated toward them and put their head down. It is sign of weakness and in the world, we live in a man cannot be weak. Stanley is more violent than Lester and that how far Lester can go with the violence. In the society that we live majority are unhappy to work at a low-income job. The title American Beauty show the true beauty of America when someone that is highly qualified for a job is rejected for a low-income job. The same in vice versa. There are people that wants to achieve just by doing nothing at all. Someone that does just that is looked down upon. Our founding father started of the American dream of success, freedom, equal opportunity. We can control in our own density. If someone in a low-income class then