The Great Gatsby American Dream Attainable

In Francis Scott Fitzgerald's Novel the Great Gatsby he uses several different characters to show that the American dream is not attainable no matter how hard you work or how successful you are in life. The Novel includes characters who are rich and poor ones that came from money and ones that did not and no matter how rich they were they always wanted something else. The characters all want the one thing they don't have or can't have whether it be items you can purchase with money or not. Before you can determine if the American dream is attainable we first need to understand what the american dream is. The american dream is rooted in the declaration of independence where it says “all men are created equally with the right to life liberty
Jay Gatsby is a man who’s life is the classic American dream story. Growing up in a less than ideal family to becoming one of the richest most well known man in New York. Throwing massive parties that everyone shows up to, owning lots of new cars in his garage, and a closet full of suits and beautiful shirts. “It was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a beard of thin raw ivy and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsbys” (Fitzgerald, 5)He however attained such wealth and status through unsavory means. Jay Gatsby was a bootlegger and had a bad reputation. “A successful, slightly disreputable man”(‘Francis Scott Key
All of the parties he throws and beautiful possessions are all just to attract Daisy his one and only true love. Even going as far as to build his house on the other side of the bay from Daisy's. Who was married to Tom Buchanan another person who had achieved the so called American dream. So While Jay Gatsby may have all of the materials and wealth of someone who is living the American Dream. He is actually unsatisfied with his life therefore leaving his American dream unattained. Phillips