Fitzgerald has described the American Dream as fantastic and magical. His American Dream has been real for him in his actual life. His fame and success has been realized and he tells the reader about the structure of the Dream, the work needed, and the struggle of the Dream. Fitzgerald knows what it is like to have the American Dream happen to him, and he continues to share the struggle and journey of the American Dream, today, through The Great Gatsby.
The American Dream is always built on a strong base, as is a building, so it doesn’t fall apart. It all starts with money and how the person trying to achieve the Dream, uses the money. It is gained by The person’s hard work or by an event in time, that grants them the money. The money defines …show more content…
This is blatantly apparent in The Great Gatsby. A quote that illustrates this is in chapter 7, page 105. Nick says, "She's got an indiscreet voice," I ( Nick) remarked. "It's full of——”“ Her voice is full of money,” he says suddenly. Nick writes “That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it. . . High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl. . . ” This is a product of her wealth making her seem uptight and used to the privilege of money. She was born into money, as were many of the people from East Egg. There was a sharp divide amongst the rich and poor. This is well outlined in the quote in chapter 2, page 20. It says, “About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain …show more content…
Gatsby even found a way to almost completely erase his former life to achieve such a goal. His belief, as is many others in East Egg , is that, you can never be poor and then rich, without some kind of setback / trouble. This is portrayed as almost a disease or the person being dirty. The people of East Egg detest the working class and “new money” people of West Egg. This is the mindset for most of the people in East Egg. They are born into a family that has had money for generations and pass the wealth onto their children.they despise the hard working and West Egg people. Gatsby knows the price of growing up poor and gave Nick some advice from Gatsby’s father on page one . Gatsby says, “It's a lot easier to be morally upright when you're not pinching and scraping to make a living… which makes the immorality of the wealthy even more unforgivable. Every advantage in the world, and they can't even be nice people? Nick may forgive them, but we're not sure we do.” This shows Gatsby’s sympathy for the poor and the work they put in. Nick realizes the ignorance and the impotence of the rich East Egg. He puts this into his own words on page twenty through the symbol of Tom Buchanan. Nick writes, “His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.” Nick
The American Dream is always built on a strong base, as is a building, so it doesn’t fall apart. It all starts with money and how the person trying to achieve the Dream, uses the money. It is gained by The person’s hard work or by an event in time, that grants them the money. The money defines …show more content…
This is blatantly apparent in The Great Gatsby. A quote that illustrates this is in chapter 7, page 105. Nick says, "She's got an indiscreet voice," I ( Nick) remarked. "It's full of——”“ Her voice is full of money,” he says suddenly. Nick writes “That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it. . . High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl. . . ” This is a product of her wealth making her seem uptight and used to the privilege of money. She was born into money, as were many of the people from East Egg. There was a sharp divide amongst the rich and poor. This is well outlined in the quote in chapter 2, page 20. It says, “About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain …show more content…
Gatsby even found a way to almost completely erase his former life to achieve such a goal. His belief, as is many others in East Egg , is that, you can never be poor and then rich, without some kind of setback / trouble. This is portrayed as almost a disease or the person being dirty. The people of East Egg detest the working class and “new money” people of West Egg. This is the mindset for most of the people in East Egg. They are born into a family that has had money for generations and pass the wealth onto their children.they despise the hard working and West Egg people. Gatsby knows the price of growing up poor and gave Nick some advice from Gatsby’s father on page one . Gatsby says, “It's a lot easier to be morally upright when you're not pinching and scraping to make a living… which makes the immorality of the wealthy even more unforgivable. Every advantage in the world, and they can't even be nice people? Nick may forgive them, but we're not sure we do.” This shows Gatsby’s sympathy for the poor and the work they put in. Nick realizes the ignorance and the impotence of the rich East Egg. He puts this into his own words on page twenty through the symbol of Tom Buchanan. Nick writes, “His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.” Nick