The Working Poor and the American Dream: Hope lost Because of Class
Throughout American history, people have fought for and moved to the United States to live a life of freedom, where they can pursue happiness and achieve their highest goals. The American Dream is viewed by many as accomplishing their desired life, making it unique to everyone with the same outcome: accomplishing their goals. Hope in the American Dream can be lost due to lack of wealth and class, that affect the way people work towards accomplishing their goals. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of the American Dream, where he strives to win over the love of Daisy Buchanan and finally complete his life. Daisy had left Gatsby after he went …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, he argues throughout the novel that the American Dream is unattainable to the working poor because of class that limits their mobility, causing them to lose hope. He argues his point through the character George, describing his character as one who has lost all hope and is “spiritless” and also describes how his shop that he works so hard hard to use to move up in class as “bare” and “unprosperous,” showing that he is losing out on money and hope to achieve his dreams. The motif of water is also used to imply boundaries that limit the characters of George and Gatsby by showing how class creates expectations and rules that the working poor are unable to obtain due to a lack of money and the strict expectations. Fitzgerald ties all of these ideas to make up his statement showing what he believes of the real world and how class can affect everyone beginning at birth and never ending. Today, this statement made by Fitzgerald can still apply, but there is a better chance for people to grow and be mobile in class with higher education levels and more growth opportunities with increasing amounts of jobs and lower unemployment rates. It still applies to those who are less fortunate and may not have had the advantages and opportunities that others have had in their life; However, the American Dream is more obtainable in today’s world than it was back
Throughout American history, people have fought for and moved to the United States to live a life of freedom, where they can pursue happiness and achieve their highest goals. The American Dream is viewed by many as accomplishing their desired life, making it unique to everyone with the same outcome: accomplishing their goals. Hope in the American Dream can be lost due to lack of wealth and class, that affect the way people work towards accomplishing their goals. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of the American Dream, where he strives to win over the love of Daisy Buchanan and finally complete his life. Daisy had left Gatsby after he went …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, he argues throughout the novel that the American Dream is unattainable to the working poor because of class that limits their mobility, causing them to lose hope. He argues his point through the character George, describing his character as one who has lost all hope and is “spiritless” and also describes how his shop that he works so hard hard to use to move up in class as “bare” and “unprosperous,” showing that he is losing out on money and hope to achieve his dreams. The motif of water is also used to imply boundaries that limit the characters of George and Gatsby by showing how class creates expectations and rules that the working poor are unable to obtain due to a lack of money and the strict expectations. Fitzgerald ties all of these ideas to make up his statement showing what he believes of the real world and how class can affect everyone beginning at birth and never ending. Today, this statement made by Fitzgerald can still apply, but there is a better chance for people to grow and be mobile in class with higher education levels and more growth opportunities with increasing amounts of jobs and lower unemployment rates. It still applies to those who are less fortunate and may not have had the advantages and opportunities that others have had in their life; However, the American Dream is more obtainable in today’s world than it was back