The American Dream
The American Dream is a term that is associated with the American way of life. It is a statement that keeps everyone moving to become better, to do better, and to be better. The process of getting to these ideals is not the most pleasant, but can be the most rewarding to those who strive. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan come from money yet they seek much more. In the short story The Egg by Sherwood Anderson, Father and Mother have the concept of the American Dream running through their veins for a better future. In both the novel and the short story, the characters exhibit the ideals of the American Dream however it is the process that makes the dream more …show more content…
In the end of The Great Gatsby everyone’s dreams are tearing apart, but it is Tom Buchanan’s life that is rising. “She and Tom had gone away early that afternoon” (Fitzgerald, 172). Tom is so close to losing Daisy, his wife to Gatsby, but once he lied to Wilson and got his only obstacle out of the way he got his wife back and he left his world with her. To begin with, Jay Gatsby is once again in love with Daisy and she is in love with him, but as his dream becomes reality he dies a harsh death. “This isn’t Mr. Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby’s dead” (Fitzgerald 174). Gatsby’s dream fails and dies with him as well as for Daisy’s love for him as she leaves with Tom. As Tom’s life is conquering so is the family restaurant business the parents have started from the little money they have. “It was father’s idea that both he and mother should try to entertain the people who came to eat at our restaurant” (Anderson 235). Father’s first business has failed him, but his 2nd business has not. Father is starting to look at the world with a new perspective. Father and Tom are doing the best they can with their lives right now and are making their dreams a better reality. Sadly enough the families first business, the chicken farming business unlike the restaurant business has failed the family miserably. “He decided that he has in the past been an unsuccessful man” (Anderson 235). Father loses his first dream to a business he is not meant to strive in and Gatsby loses his dream to a death that could have been missed. Gatsby and Father both fail and lose their American Dreams that they have spent ages trying to strive for. Father then starts his 2nd business and conquers and rises just like mighty Tom
The American Dream is a term that is associated with the American way of life. It is a statement that keeps everyone moving to become better, to do better, and to be better. The process of getting to these ideals is not the most pleasant, but can be the most rewarding to those who strive. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan come from money yet they seek much more. In the short story The Egg by Sherwood Anderson, Father and Mother have the concept of the American Dream running through their veins for a better future. In both the novel and the short story, the characters exhibit the ideals of the American Dream however it is the process that makes the dream more …show more content…
In the end of The Great Gatsby everyone’s dreams are tearing apart, but it is Tom Buchanan’s life that is rising. “She and Tom had gone away early that afternoon” (Fitzgerald, 172). Tom is so close to losing Daisy, his wife to Gatsby, but once he lied to Wilson and got his only obstacle out of the way he got his wife back and he left his world with her. To begin with, Jay Gatsby is once again in love with Daisy and she is in love with him, but as his dream becomes reality he dies a harsh death. “This isn’t Mr. Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby’s dead” (Fitzgerald 174). Gatsby’s dream fails and dies with him as well as for Daisy’s love for him as she leaves with Tom. As Tom’s life is conquering so is the family restaurant business the parents have started from the little money they have. “It was father’s idea that both he and mother should try to entertain the people who came to eat at our restaurant” (Anderson 235). Father’s first business has failed him, but his 2nd business has not. Father is starting to look at the world with a new perspective. Father and Tom are doing the best they can with their lives right now and are making their dreams a better reality. Sadly enough the families first business, the chicken farming business unlike the restaurant business has failed the family miserably. “He decided that he has in the past been an unsuccessful man” (Anderson 235). Father loses his first dream to a business he is not meant to strive in and Gatsby loses his dream to a death that could have been missed. Gatsby and Father both fail and lose their American Dreams that they have spent ages trying to strive for. Father then starts his 2nd business and conquers and rises just like mighty Tom