Why Is Gatsby An Ineffective Way To Interpret The American Dream Come True

Gatsby; A Dream Come True? Murder, crime, carelessness, parties, and cheating wives- this is definitely not a making of an episode of the Desperate Housewives, but just one of a classic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A long time ago, in an American Tragedy, a Naturalist named Theodore Dreiser said, “what matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?” This quote simply means that a person pouring all your energy and life into worldly things like power, money, status symbols, etc. If you die with riches in the bank, but a bankrupt, neglected soul, you have less than nothing. In the novel, the main character James Gatsby, or as people know him as “Jay Gatsby” strived and worked very diligently his whole life to be rich and successful, so that he can achieve his life goal, impressing the women he loved, Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby had this

The novel, The Great Gatsby was an ineffective way to interpret the American Dream because of how Gatsby did all hard work to achieve his small goals, but failed to achieve

In the novel, it says “ Gatsby bought a house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). This quote simply proves that Gatsby strived to become rich and successful just to be with Daisy, so that he can impress her. He bought a huge house right across the bay from her house, just because he wants to be close to her, and see her day by day. In an article, it says “Money is in the heart of the book, and is what gives the hero foolish ideas that he could possibly buy the love of Daisy Buchanan. The quote here proves that whatever Gatsby was trying to do would have never really a smart idea, and in the end Gatsby did not even get the love back from Daisy after all that Gatsby has done for