How The Great Gatsby And Myrtle's Dream Be Destroyed

The American Dream, Achieved or Destroyed?
The American Dream is the idea that every U.S. citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald represents what happened in the 1920s showing how the American Dream can be achieved or destroyed.
Myrtle Wilson is the wife of garage owner George Wilson and the mistress of Tom Buchanan. George and Myrtle don't really have any money. Myrtle can be identified as a person who doesn't love what she has and is doesn't care what goes on in other people's relationship. In the novel, Jordan says that " She might have the decency not to telephone around dinner time.Don't you think?"(15) Myrtle's dream was to have money, so she sneaks around with Tom for this reason. Myrtle's identity represents that the American dream can be destroyed because she died from getting hit by Gatsby's car by Daisy Buchanan because she was driving which is ironic because Daisy is Tom's wife and Myrtle was sneaking around with Daisy's husband.
He met a girl named Daisy Buchanan and fell in love with her. She lived a wealthy life where Gatsby did not. Gatsby was sent to war and Daisy got married. Gatsby was willing to be able to give Daisy everything she wanted without her ever having to ask for it. After Gatsby came from the war, he started to become a rich and successful man. Gatsby was killed by George Wilson once he figured out that it was his car that hit Myrtle. Gatsby's identity represents that the American dream can be destroyed because he puts forth all this effort in trying to "repeat the past"(110), that he, however, gets distracted from being in love and gets