My own opinion of the ‘American Dream’, is working hard for not only yourself, but supporting your own and being happy with the lifestyle that you have grown with, and being at peace with your own creation would be the most rewarding thing to keep living on through. What’s rubbed off from this novel, is the …show more content…
Both leading to unsatisfying results in this case, and in ways corrupts their own reputation all on its own. In Gatsby’s status, he had naturally set a mysterious outlook, starting from not attending his own parties as lively, or at all, evenly along with his guests, “I’m Gatsby’, he said suddenly, ‘What!’, I exclaimed, ‘Oh I beg your pardon.’ ‘I thought you knew, old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host.’(Pg.45). Which has lead to the chain reaction directly towards the curiosity of his past, and beginning outcome of him living the socially rich exterior. “You live in West Egg’, she remarked contemptuously, ‘I know somebody there.’ ‘I don’t know a single--’ ‘You must know Gatsby.”(Pg.18) Rumors and misleading facts towards what this man’s life beholds, and places its target directly on his social actions, where the questions arise of why he doesn’t socialize with having such spontaneous parties, if he killed a man, or if he’s a bootlegger, or even if he’s an owner of a chain of drug stores! Everyone is simply trying to strive to be wealthy, which is suggested to be the key to success, to have more class, and finding more ways to have a better life, which happens to be its own type of success in social …show more content…
I could say that love is Gatsby’s American dream, but the mystery is if he really loves her, or her money. Love and money is the American dream, the world’s dream, but there will never be enough money, fame, and love because every time we get what we wanted, we then realize that we want more. This book obtains that in reality we want to go back to a time to that place that we felt safe, which is when we were happy, pure, and innocent. Which from his dream, just lead to more violence and corruption that he was trying to get away from. All Gatsby wants is the innocence and purity that’s stitched with