False Hope In Fitzgerald's Of Mice And Men
American Dream
In the Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, the American Dream proves to be highly unachievable. Both authors, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck, convey this idea through portraying the harsh realities each decade had faced. The sense of false hope suggests that the dream is out of reach, and it lives on in a whole different world. Gatsby, George and Lennie are motivated by their false hope. They believe that their dream can still come true. They are myopic of what can actually be achieved. They don’t know that they can’t enter the other world, one that is so different from them that they can’t cross. There isn’t a bridge between hope and reality. They don’t stay away from it to avoid being hurt, instead, they immaturely run towards it without realizing the damage that can be done. It’s hard to …show more content…
Gatsby never got to be with Daisy. They both died still believing in their false hope. Reality never hit them. Many people face the same thing living their whole life without knowing the truth. They think that if they work hard, they will get there. They are like innocent little kids who haven’t learned the dangers of the real world. The rich and poor will never mingle such as Tom and Myrtle. The social status of rich and poor stood in their way as well as that of new and old money. Don’t easily trust people, they will manipulate things and lie to your face. Gatsby was killed in the end because of Tom’s and Daisy’s mistakes. He had to pay the ultimate price of his life. Yet, he died believing he still had a chance. “If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.” (ch. 8). Lennie was so happy before he died. “Lennie giggled with happiness. Le’s get that place now.” (pg. 106). The harsh reality both novels revealed was that dreams don’t come true. The timing would never be right and the dream was impossible to
In the Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, the American Dream proves to be highly unachievable. Both authors, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck, convey this idea through portraying the harsh realities each decade had faced. The sense of false hope suggests that the dream is out of reach, and it lives on in a whole different world. Gatsby, George and Lennie are motivated by their false hope. They believe that their dream can still come true. They are myopic of what can actually be achieved. They don’t know that they can’t enter the other world, one that is so different from them that they can’t cross. There isn’t a bridge between hope and reality. They don’t stay away from it to avoid being hurt, instead, they immaturely run towards it without realizing the damage that can be done. It’s hard to …show more content…
Gatsby never got to be with Daisy. They both died still believing in their false hope. Reality never hit them. Many people face the same thing living their whole life without knowing the truth. They think that if they work hard, they will get there. They are like innocent little kids who haven’t learned the dangers of the real world. The rich and poor will never mingle such as Tom and Myrtle. The social status of rich and poor stood in their way as well as that of new and old money. Don’t easily trust people, they will manipulate things and lie to your face. Gatsby was killed in the end because of Tom’s and Daisy’s mistakes. He had to pay the ultimate price of his life. Yet, he died believing he still had a chance. “If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.” (ch. 8). Lennie was so happy before he died. “Lennie giggled with happiness. Le’s get that place now.” (pg. 106). The harsh reality both novels revealed was that dreams don’t come true. The timing would never be right and the dream was impossible to