Do hardships in one's life change his/her dreams? Do these hardships make people more willing to do anything to get closer to reaching their dream? America is a place where people can come and try to make their dreams a reality. America is the land of gold paved roads and unimaginable opportunities. In American society there is widely felt push toward having a better life. This push is called the American Dream. The American Dream portrays someone starting low and working towards prosperity though a specific means. Countless times in literature, this American Dream has been explored. The American Dream implies that anyone can become successful by his/her own work. The American Dream was quite alive in everyone's mind in the 1920s, and Scott Fitzgerald was right in the
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The want to better one's life created an individualistic society. This individualism resulted in a corrupt and materialistic society. From that, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby exemplifies how corruption and materialism makes attaining happiness and achieving the American Dream impossible.
The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920s, also known as the roaring twenties. The 1920s was when the consumer economy was introduced, and everyone loved it. It was all about the money. People believed that the more they had the happier they would be. Daisy Buchanan believes this to the fullest. Daisy is constantly portrayed as someone who with the more she has,happier she is. Her voice even is “full of money.” Her materialistic personality is best shown when she meets Gatsby again. Daisy and Gatsby were meant to be together from the first moment when they “slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” She gave that up for financial security with Tom. Daisy even seems to regret it at first when she is found pulling out a string of pearls saying “Take ‘em down-stairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to” (Fitzgerald 77). She chose
The want to better one's life created an individualistic society. This individualism resulted in a corrupt and materialistic society. From that, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby exemplifies how corruption and materialism makes attaining happiness and achieving the American Dream impossible.
The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920s, also known as the roaring twenties. The 1920s was when the consumer economy was introduced, and everyone loved it. It was all about the money. People believed that the more they had the happier they would be. Daisy Buchanan believes this to the fullest. Daisy is constantly portrayed as someone who with the more she has,happier she is. Her voice even is “full of money.” Her materialistic personality is best shown when she meets Gatsby again. Daisy and Gatsby were meant to be together from the first moment when they “slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” She gave that up for financial security with Tom. Daisy even seems to regret it at first when she is found pulling out a string of pearls saying “Take ‘em down-stairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to” (Fitzgerald 77). She chose