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Gatsby (The American Dream)

To many Americans, the American dream is merely about reaching a higher standard of living. In The Great Gatsby, all the characters are in one way
or another, attempting to achieve a state of happiness in their lives In the Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald described the 1920s as an era of corrupt
social and moral values, manifested in its overarching ironical greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. the idealism and spiritualism of the American Dream is
eventually crushed beneath the harsh reality of life, leaving their lives without any meaning or purpose.   Gatsby was
one of these Americans who lived his whole life in search of wealth and power. He felt that with money, other advantages also came in life. Gatsby based his whole self-awareness
on how much money he earned and the possessions he had. His purpose for wanting to be so wealthy was so Gatsby could win his old love back. When Gatsby first met his love
Daisy, he was considered unwealthy; he knew he had to become wealthy in order to ever unite with her. Gatsby felt the only way he could win Daisy back was to reach for what
people considered the “American Dream.”
He successfully accomplished “The American Dream”, but his visionary faith in money changed his dreams and life into worthless existences based on dishonesty.
Now, at the time when this story takes place in 1920's Daisy and Gatsby still have a thing for each other and their romance develops throughout. Taking what he has got
for granted, like almost everything else he's got going for him, he begins to loose what he wants the most, Daisy. It is the difference between reality and ideals that
prompts the failure of Gatsby’s dream and the American Dream by and large. Perhaps the love affair between Gatsby and Daisy in the past is such a memorable experience
of bliss that he always longs for the past, even though it seems incapable for him to regain Daisy’s affection.
There are many symbols in the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald repeatedly...