The Destruction of Dreams
We’ve all been there, wanting something we know is impossible, dreaming of becoming something we just can’t become. That’s The American Dream, the wanting of something so out of reach, something that seems so good but in reality it’s just a false fixation. The American Dream is not necessary to society because it gives people unrealistic ideals, because society tells us what to want.
The American Dream just ends up disappointing people. An example of this is from The Great Gatsby: "He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could return to a certain …show more content…
In The Great Gatsby it shows how people just stepped all over other people to get what they want: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." This shows how they didn’t care if they affected the people around them; it blinded them and after the were done destroying other people’s lives, they left them to be. Some people might say that they need to be oblivious because the world is a terrible place, but if you’re oblivious and naive it’s easier to get hurt. And once you get hurt once you’re never the same.
The American Dream is not necessary to society because it gives people unrealistic ideals, because society tells us what to want. The American Dream just deters us from detecting what's realistic and what's achievable. Having an unrealistic dream even though it may keep you going in the long run it’ll just end up hurting you and it makes you weak. It causes you to not care about others as much and it not only hurts us but also the people around us and the people who love us. Therefore The American Dream is just a facade for people to believe they’re
We’ve all been there, wanting something we know is impossible, dreaming of becoming something we just can’t become. That’s The American Dream, the wanting of something so out of reach, something that seems so good but in reality it’s just a false fixation. The American Dream is not necessary to society because it gives people unrealistic ideals, because society tells us what to want.
The American Dream just ends up disappointing people. An example of this is from The Great Gatsby: "He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could return to a certain …show more content…
In The Great Gatsby it shows how people just stepped all over other people to get what they want: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." This shows how they didn’t care if they affected the people around them; it blinded them and after the were done destroying other people’s lives, they left them to be. Some people might say that they need to be oblivious because the world is a terrible place, but if you’re oblivious and naive it’s easier to get hurt. And once you get hurt once you’re never the same.
The American Dream is not necessary to society because it gives people unrealistic ideals, because society tells us what to want. The American Dream just deters us from detecting what's realistic and what's achievable. Having an unrealistic dream even though it may keep you going in the long run it’ll just end up hurting you and it makes you weak. It causes you to not care about others as much and it not only hurts us but also the people around us and the people who love us. Therefore The American Dream is just a facade for people to believe they’re