The American dream is a debatable proposition that can be deciphered in many different manners, today people realize that it is just a matter of accepting the fact that there is not just one ‘American Dream.’ Some people have hopes of becoming rich, while some have dreams to be given more opportunities, others have dreams to become someone famous, and have a perfect reputation. These examples pinpoint that there is not just one ‘American Dream’. Everyone has dreams, but not all are the same. People make their own ‘American Dream,’ because they are their own person and not everyone has the same lifestyle. People believe that once they achieve their dreams they will be happy and set for life, but that is not the case today. In modern times, people
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This dream starts to fade away once he meets a rich girl from Louisville, named Daisy. At this time Gatsby was still a poor boy, but on the road of changing. Daisy, born into a rich family with a very good reputation falls in love with Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy are mutual. However, social classes were still a big representation of who you were, just like they are today. Although it does not come right out and say it, the book implies that Daisy being part of the higher class cannot marry someone of the middle class which at this time is what class Gatsby is categorized in. Gatsby, shortly after realizing that he needs to become rich to win Daisy’s heart makes it his priority to get her back and joins the army to start a new path. Daisy tells him that she will wait, but that is not the case. “By the next autumn she was was gay again gay as ever. She Presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before,” says Jordan in regard of Daisy, her best friend, (Fitzgerald 80). Jordan is telling this story to Daisy’s cousin, Nick who is neighbors with Gatsby. After the war Gatsby comes back rich as ever, by getting most of his wealth from bootlegging. He then has parties every night of the summer, hoping that she will one day show up to one but she never does. So he calls up his neighbor and invites him to one, so he can sweet talk him into helping him meet up with Daisy. His neighbor is Nick the narrator of the
This dream starts to fade away once he meets a rich girl from Louisville, named Daisy. At this time Gatsby was still a poor boy, but on the road of changing. Daisy, born into a rich family with a very good reputation falls in love with Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy are mutual. However, social classes were still a big representation of who you were, just like they are today. Although it does not come right out and say it, the book implies that Daisy being part of the higher class cannot marry someone of the middle class which at this time is what class Gatsby is categorized in. Gatsby, shortly after realizing that he needs to become rich to win Daisy’s heart makes it his priority to get her back and joins the army to start a new path. Daisy tells him that she will wait, but that is not the case. “By the next autumn she was was gay again gay as ever. She Presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before,” says Jordan in regard of Daisy, her best friend, (Fitzgerald 80). Jordan is telling this story to Daisy’s cousin, Nick who is neighbors with Gatsby. After the war Gatsby comes back rich as ever, by getting most of his wealth from bootlegging. He then has parties every night of the summer, hoping that she will one day show up to one but she never does. So he calls up his neighbor and invites him to one, so he can sweet talk him into helping him meet up with Daisy. His neighbor is Nick the narrator of the