The American Dream is the desire for success and the the ability to be able to achieve the success quickly. Even those who are born in this country still wish to live the American Dream. In the Great Gatsby, wealth and unconditional love are the dreams that F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters long for. Lies and death cannot disrupt their needs to maintain the luxurious lives they already live. F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the struggle for existence in the Jazz Age and the hurt all humans face in their lives, but there is eventually a period of time to cope with it, even if that is moving away from the situation completely.
Incessant lies jaded the Buchanan family's true happiness. Daisy came from a prominent family from Louisville Kentucky. While …show more content…
Jordan Baker often helped in the effort of spreading these rumors and stirring the pot with everyone's thoughts. It often was, "Tom's girl," on the other end of the line, when Tom asked to be excused to answer the phone (Fitzgerald 116). Daisy was in such disbelief that the man she loved for a very short time has moved on to another woman to share the wealth with. As Daisy was in such disbelief, Tom was too. He had learned that his "beloved" wife no longer has the love for him as she did when they got married. With his temper he lashes at Gatsby in the hotel room, " He and this Wolfsheim brought up a side-street drug store here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol of the counter. I picked him for a bootlegger the fist time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong" (Fitzgerald 133). In a time of prohibition, if a person from a high social ranking or very low, was acting the least bit different from the societal norm of the upper class men and women, they were most likely assumed to be a bootlegger or have had alcohol from one. In a domain like East and West Egg, you may not get along with everyone, but if you get too close they might turn on you in a way you never
Incessant lies jaded the Buchanan family's true happiness. Daisy came from a prominent family from Louisville Kentucky. While …show more content…
Jordan Baker often helped in the effort of spreading these rumors and stirring the pot with everyone's thoughts. It often was, "Tom's girl," on the other end of the line, when Tom asked to be excused to answer the phone (Fitzgerald 116). Daisy was in such disbelief that the man she loved for a very short time has moved on to another woman to share the wealth with. As Daisy was in such disbelief, Tom was too. He had learned that his "beloved" wife no longer has the love for him as she did when they got married. With his temper he lashes at Gatsby in the hotel room, " He and this Wolfsheim brought up a side-street drug store here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol of the counter. I picked him for a bootlegger the fist time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong" (Fitzgerald 133). In a time of prohibition, if a person from a high social ranking or very low, was acting the least bit different from the societal norm of the upper class men and women, they were most likely assumed to be a bootlegger or have had alcohol from one. In a domain like East and West Egg, you may not get along with everyone, but if you get too close they might turn on you in a way you never