The American Dream is defined as the idea that everyone has an equal opportunity to their pursuit of happiness. However, the concept behind this is changing as portrayed by Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The definition of happiness is different for everyone and the dream can be interpreted in many ways. Jay Gatsby, a wealthy young man, was the novel’s main focus in revealing his true nature and humble origins. Although others view him as one living in the American Dream, it was later to be found as an illusion. Gatsby fails to pursue his vision of happiness when he tries to make things work with Daisy. After five years being separated, Gatsby followed his own path to wealth in hope to one day reunite with Daisy. When that day finally came,
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With all the materialistic things Gatsby owns, Daisy is the one that leaves him in “wonder”. For the first time, we see Gatsby’s true intentions he has of Daisy and envisions a happy life. He isn’t content in life even with all the money he has. Daisy resembles the happiness that would complete Gatsby and his dream. Furthermore, Gatsby continues to learn more about Daisy since their split, “her voice is full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it… High in a white palace, the king’s daughter, the golden girl” (citation). The five years apart gave way to Gatsby setting high expectations of Daisy that disappointed him a little bit. Nonetheless, his big house and nice car was an attempt to impress Daisy and believed that it was worth it. Gatsby wins Daisy’s heart by showing off all his wealth but ultimately fails to realise if she loved him for who he was as a broke guy, or who he is now. As Fitzgerald describes it, Daisy was the “golden girl” that Gatsby wanted to pursue. Moving on with the words that concluded the novel and Gatsby’s death, “he had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp
With all the materialistic things Gatsby owns, Daisy is the one that leaves him in “wonder”. For the first time, we see Gatsby’s true intentions he has of Daisy and envisions a happy life. He isn’t content in life even with all the money he has. Daisy resembles the happiness that would complete Gatsby and his dream. Furthermore, Gatsby continues to learn more about Daisy since their split, “her voice is full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it… High in a white palace, the king’s daughter, the golden girl” (citation). The five years apart gave way to Gatsby setting high expectations of Daisy that disappointed him a little bit. Nonetheless, his big house and nice car was an attempt to impress Daisy and believed that it was worth it. Gatsby wins Daisy’s heart by showing off all his wealth but ultimately fails to realise if she loved him for who he was as a broke guy, or who he is now. As Fitzgerald describes it, Daisy was the “golden girl” that Gatsby wanted to pursue. Moving on with the words that concluded the novel and Gatsby’s death, “he had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp