The Role Of Optimism In The Great Gatsby

A life full of happiness is another component of the American Dream. As a whole, the goals of obtaining love, wealth, or a career create joy in a person; the person works for what will please them. Everyone has a different way of finding happiness, and the success of finding it will bring success of the American Dream. A life of difficulties makes the search for happiness not an easy task, but people come anyways to America with hopes of obtaining their happiness.
America promises freedom, a relief for those who did not previously have the ability to do whatever brings happiness to their life. This country promises the right for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on top of countless other freedoms, such as speech. The home country of an immigrant may not offer those liberties. The American freedom allows people to pursue happiness in any way necessary, thus people immigrate from around the globe to live the free life. For these people, the American Dream becomes the dream of living in the land of the free and doing what they please; these people are freed from their metaphorical shackles and optimism about life appears.
Freedom and the sense of optimism are well shown in “The Story of
There is an advertisement of a large pair of eyes and glasses that belongs to Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, and everyone in the valley worships these eyes. The eyes are a representation of God. Wilson had started his rant about God knowing everything about Myrtle’s affair when “Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg” (Fitzgerald 159). Doctor Eckleburg was held on a pedestal, and the people of the Valley of the Ashes worshipped him as a god. He was rich and living a life the people did not have, so they looked up – physically and figuratively – at the doctor. They will not be able to reach his level because they are too