Causes Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

Truth behind the American Dream
Is the American Dream only a dream or can it ever be achieved? In the United States, the basic motto is to attend the American Dream. It is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work; determination, and initiative. It does not matter if a person was born in a poor family; he or she has equal opportunities to attain the American Dream. The American Dream basically means success in life with a nice house, a job, knowledge and especially the pursuit of happiness. Similarly, The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who plays with the idea of weather the American Dream is attainable. He projects the American Dream during the
Gatsby partly owns the American Dream because of his great achievement in wealth. He captures everything a wealthy man could possibly own. For example, a big house, a fancy pool, acres of land, garden, cars, etc(5). He never lacks the discomfort of buying something that was out of his reach. Furthermore, hard-work is another part of a true American Dreamers. Gatsby 's success was only possible with his tough mindset that working hard leads to success. Gatsby once had nothing. As Nike states,"his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people"(98). Gatsby 's once been poor, he worked his way to the top shows that anyone can strive for the American Dream. On top of that, he never gave up; he always wanted more than others. Gatsby believes,"tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther"(180). He is the definition of working hard to grasp dreams by the neck. Gatsby has been a self made man starting as a young man. As his father describes him in his young ages: "Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he’s got about improving his mind? He was always great for that"(173). Gatsby was always moving forward improving and building his skills; he had a particular schedule which he follows to stay on task and he had a list of things he needs improvement on. Only a few individual with big dream are working day night improving their skills.
He isolated himself from the connection to the world. His only best friend was money, which only provide short term happiness. Gatsby one the short term happiness is his parties. We can see the vast amount of unknown people coming to his party ever so often(39). These people come and go. They are not his friends, in fact, they are fake friends who also on the other hand, are looking to have the feel of high standard life. For instance,"Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came to the party with simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission"(41). This proves Gatsby isolated himself from the world of relationships. Gatsby can buy the parties with money, but not the friendship. They come to Gatsby parties for his money. After attaining all the wealth, Gatsby 's ultimate dream is to attain his long lost love who he thinks can be won with wealth. Daisy is also no different than the others as she fake loves Gatsby for him money. For example, Gatsby states "Her voice is full of money" because she can be bought and sold like money (120). Her voice ' tone goes up and down which emphasize that she is fake just like the sound of coins on someone 's pocket. She is for sale, so she can enjoy the wealth of Gatsby luxurious life. Daisy sees only wealth on Gatsby while he is searching for real