The Great Gatsby Is The American Dream Not Real

The American Dream is everybody’s greatest aspiration. The American Dream is the belief that each individual can, through hard work and strength of mind, achieve everything they desire. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Great Gatsby, chose to portray the American Dream not as the wonderful thing most people believe it is, but as corrupt and not real. All of Fitzgerald’s characters in his novel strove throughout the book to achieve their version of what they believed the American Dream to be. Using his characters, Fitzgerald conveyed a deep and unique message that the American Dream is not real, and that no matter how hard you try to reach it, it will never be obtained. On the final page of the book, Fitzgerald wrote what is now
Jay Gatsby fought hard to see his dream fulfilled, but in the end all of his effort was not enough for it to become actualized. This corroborates the concluding paragraph of The Great Gatsby because the paragraph touches on a person seeking out to accomplish their dreams but as time went on they slowly came to realize that those dreams can never be and will never be accomplished. This is synonymous to what Gatsby passed thorough with his hope of winning Daisy’s
However, back in the 1920’s women did not work, and they depended on the men in their lives to provide them with the money they needed to buy and do the things they wanted. At the time when Myrtle married her husband, George Wilson, she believed that he would be able to do just that for her. “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.” (Fitzgerald 34). Myrtle married him because she thought he was a good person and would be able to supply her with all of her wants and need, but after marrying him she learned that he barely had enough money to provide for the both of them. Myrtle’s solution for this was to have an affair with a wealthy man named Tom Buchanan. Tom bought her anything she desired. One day while driving to the secret apartment they rented they saw a man selling dogs on the side of the street for ten dollars each. Myrtle wanted one of the pups so Tom stopped the taxi, chose a dog, and said to the vendor “‘Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it.’” (Fitzgerald 28). Therefore, Tom payed the man one hundred dollars for the puppy without any thought. This is the life that Myrtle wanted. A life where she could spend however much money she wanted without a second thought about it. However, while Tom bought her whatever she wanted and showered her with