Accomplishing the American Dream
Accomplishing the American Dream
There is no real definition of what the American Dream is. But rather it’s your own viewpoint on society, yourself, and where you place yourself on the chart of happiness and success. Winston Churchill claims, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” and believes that nothing is final or fatal, but persistence and self-encouragement is ideal to living a successful life. In a broad sense, the American Dream represents self-fulfillment in the aspects of wealth, luxury, love, beauty, and health. But it is ones attitude that determines whether or not the American Dream is achieved. Within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s reveals his embarrassing own American Dream, which broadly relates to my aunt, Tina Badciong’s, American Dream, along with my own. Throughout the novel Jay Gatsby reveals his American dream as ways of lifestyle that ultimately lead up to relighting the love he once had with Daisy. He fantasized of Daisy and had a strong drive that wealth would be able to grant him anything. He had a dream of luxury, wealth, and extravagance that would lead him to his past love and self-fulfillment. But by chasing Daisy down, Gatsby missed out on living his life to the fullest, and enjoying what he had earned himself. Nick states, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, 189). The green light represents Daisy, but Nick acknowledges that Gatsby never gave up on Daisy which resulted in his failure of achieving his American Dream. Chasing after Daisy was only the reason Gatsby chased after money, trying to lure in Daisy to coming to one of his parties because of his wealth. Gatsby states, “Her
There is no real definition of what the American Dream is. But rather it’s your own viewpoint on society, yourself, and where you place yourself on the chart of happiness and success. Winston Churchill claims, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” and believes that nothing is final or fatal, but persistence and self-encouragement is ideal to living a successful life. In a broad sense, the American Dream represents self-fulfillment in the aspects of wealth, luxury, love, beauty, and health. But it is ones attitude that determines whether or not the American Dream is achieved. Within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s reveals his embarrassing own American Dream, which broadly relates to my aunt, Tina Badciong’s, American Dream, along with my own. Throughout the novel Jay Gatsby reveals his American dream as ways of lifestyle that ultimately lead up to relighting the love he once had with Daisy. He fantasized of Daisy and had a strong drive that wealth would be able to grant him anything. He had a dream of luxury, wealth, and extravagance that would lead him to his past love and self-fulfillment. But by chasing Daisy down, Gatsby missed out on living his life to the fullest, and enjoying what he had earned himself. Nick states, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, 189). The green light represents Daisy, but Nick acknowledges that Gatsby never gave up on Daisy which resulted in his failure of achieving his American Dream. Chasing after Daisy was only the reason Gatsby chased after money, trying to lure in Daisy to coming to one of his parties because of his wealth. Gatsby states, “Her