Examples Of Disillusionment In The Great Gatsby

The Disillusionment of an American Dream Wealth, fame, love, and happiness are a few words most associated with the American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel Great Gatsby, whose characters tried to acquire this, but are unsuccessful. The characters have made wrong choices of love, and gained wealth in the wrong way, to fulfill the American Dream. Daisy Buchannan is a young women who has grown up in a wealthy house with high standards. She has known from the beginning that she would need to marry a wealthy man to get the big house, gorgeous diamonds, and easy life she has been accustomed to. To get what she wants sooner, she married a man, Tom Buchannan, whom she loves mostly for his wealth instead of her true love Jay Gatsby. Daisy found out, after marriage, that Tom was not who she thought he was. Despite this, she stayed with him to keep her friends and wealth. This in turn lost her the happiness that the American dream would have given her. …show more content…
Daisy is his one true love and one true dream that he paid a heavy price for. To fulfill his dream, he had to change his life and become wealthy. In doing this he made a following of friends Daisy could be proud of. This is the only way Gatsby knows how to truly win her love. He obtained his wealth from bootlegging, knowing it is illegal, and bought a mansion not far from Daisy. After their reunion and the meeting with Tom, things took a bad turn when Myrtle was killed by a car drove by Daisy. Myrtles husband did not know this and murdered Gatsby and shot himself. The price Gatsby paid for his dream was his life. To be concluded, the American dream is an opinion of what people think is the ultimate way to live life. The characters take what they already have for granted, whether it is their true love, trusting friends, or a reasonable home. Daisy, Myrtle, and Gatsby inevitable pushed everything good they had away in order to chase a false