How To Be Successful In The Great Gatsby

As a junior in high school, college is a common topic in and out of school. Whenever this topic comes up when I’m around friends, I always remain silent. I do this because they always mention how they can get into this school or that school when in reality, it’s much harder than them just saying it. My friends tell themselves that they can get into these schools easily when I know that the possibility of them getting into that specific college is actually much harder. They must follow certain steps and receive certain grades in order to get where they want to go. Only when they have the grades and have taken the proper steps will their chances of getting into a college go up. My friends tend to tell themselves stories and lie to themselves about how they’re doing in school for reassurance about colleges that they can get into. …show more content…
In The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby was a man known all throughout New York for throwing elaborate parties and for having done incredible things throughout his life. Little did those people know that every party Gatsby had thrown and every rumor that went around was for a reason. That reason was to get closer to his dream involving Daisy Buchanan, the love of his life. The only thing that Gatsby had cared about was Daisy, so he lied to everyone in order to make himself seem better than he actually was. Gatsby blurred the lines between fact and fiction, causing him to be careless of those involved in his life and finally leading to him ruining himself when his dream didn’t come