Through this year’s entire exploration of American Literature, one theme has always remained constant: The Pursuit of Happiness. Every story, every character, and every plot we have studied have all had their own. Throughout this year of studying and analyzing these characters that every person in the world, I have learned that every person, fictional or real, has their own method of pursuing happiness. Some find happiness within love, while others find it within fortune or fame. Whichever way these characters or people find their happiness, every one of them, no matter where they originate nor who they are, find themselves driven to search for the one true aspect in their lives: happiness.
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The main character finds his happiness within love, or what he takes for love. Jay Gatsby is irrevocably in love with Daisy Buchanan, who does not return his feelings and he has spent his entire life chasing her in order to pursue his own happiness. He bases his entire life around her, in order to gain just one ounce of her attention, and at one point, he even tells the narrator, “What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?” (ch 8) proving the dedication of his love towards her. Every piece of his life has gone into loving her, and the narrator muses at one point, “I gathered that he wanted to recover something… that had gone into loving Daisy,” (ch 6) showing that Gatsby has truly lost something within his life to pursue a life with her. In conclusion, although it is not necessarily a good pursuit, Gatsby’s Pursuit of Happiness comes from loving someone with all of his heart and chasing her to the ends of the earth in order to be with …show more content…
This love is a different kind of love, however. It is a pure brotherly love, a love between two men who would never make it without one another, also known as a companionship. At one point, the men are discussing what makes them different from all of the other men out there. George asks Lennie why they are different than all of the other men, and Lennie responds with, “Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you,” (49) which is the very truth. They are two men who have no one else in the world to call their brothers, so they cling to one another for companionship and love. At a later time, George repeats the fact that they are different. He says that other men will rot in jail because no one cares about them, but he and Lennie will not rot in jail. When George asks Lennie why they will not rot in jail, Lennie replies with, “We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us!” (145). These two men are bound inexplicably and they pursue their very own happiness by clinging to one another and keeping the love and companionship which unites them both. When life threatens to beat them down, they cling to each other’s love and retain their happiness by leaning on each other, each using the presence of the other to keep him happy and sane through all of their troubles. Of Mice and Men is another American Literature piece
One main example of The Pursuit of Happiness within …show more content…
The main character finds his happiness within love, or what he takes for love. Jay Gatsby is irrevocably in love with Daisy Buchanan, who does not return his feelings and he has spent his entire life chasing her in order to pursue his own happiness. He bases his entire life around her, in order to gain just one ounce of her attention, and at one point, he even tells the narrator, “What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?” (ch 8) proving the dedication of his love towards her. Every piece of his life has gone into loving her, and the narrator muses at one point, “I gathered that he wanted to recover something… that had gone into loving Daisy,” (ch 6) showing that Gatsby has truly lost something within his life to pursue a life with her. In conclusion, although it is not necessarily a good pursuit, Gatsby’s Pursuit of Happiness comes from loving someone with all of his heart and chasing her to the ends of the earth in order to be with …show more content…
This love is a different kind of love, however. It is a pure brotherly love, a love between two men who would never make it without one another, also known as a companionship. At one point, the men are discussing what makes them different from all of the other men out there. George asks Lennie why they are different than all of the other men, and Lennie responds with, “Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you,” (49) which is the very truth. They are two men who have no one else in the world to call their brothers, so they cling to one another for companionship and love. At a later time, George repeats the fact that they are different. He says that other men will rot in jail because no one cares about them, but he and Lennie will not rot in jail. When George asks Lennie why they will not rot in jail, Lennie replies with, “We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us!” (145). These two men are bound inexplicably and they pursue their very own happiness by clinging to one another and keeping the love and companionship which unites them both. When life threatens to beat them down, they cling to each other’s love and retain their happiness by leaning on each other, each using the presence of the other to keep him happy and sane through all of their troubles. Of Mice and Men is another American Literature piece