As soon as the American dream is reached, through considerable hard work, many factors can obliterate everything that has been gained. Gatsby thinks that he has finally reached his dream, but right when he begins to feel comfortable with Daisy everything falls apart: “Gatsby, pale as death… was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.”(86) Gatsby thinks that soon he will have what he has changed everything in his life to gain. Suddenly through Daisy’s change of heart Gatsby sees his life crumble again. The American dream that he devoted himself to goes from being fulfilled to lost in a matter of minutes. The American Dream can be cruel and at the best moment end. Gatsby thinks that all the people around him care for him but he finds that they are only using him: “filled with friends now gone forever.”(70) With all the parties Gatsby throws he believes that he continues to gain more friends. All the people that attend the parties are only there for entertainment not because they care about Gatsby. Gatsby believes that his dreams of having high social and economic status have finally been …show more content…
Gatsby never had many real friends, as he thought, but instead people who came along for the short lived dream Gatsby attained. Gatsby is struck with the awful pain of knowing that he has in a sense lost his dream, “So he gave up and only the dead dream fought on”(Fitzgerald 142). Gatsby has left no options for himself in the case that his one true dream does not turn out the way that he wants. As his dream begins to drift away so does the rest of his life because he has put all of what he wanted onto Daisy’s shoulder. Nothing is left for Gatsby to turn to because he never had stability in any aspect of his life. Due to his dream, Gatsby dies emotionally, which is then followed up by his real death. The American dream is almost impossible to fully attain but the downfall of everything that is achieved happens so quickly that many people in society don’t have the opportunity to enjoy their