The American Dream is the core of all American icons. Achieving the American Dream is the most quintessential aspirations of both Americans and immigrants. To strive to get the American Dream can be very hard to do. Some people give up everything to get here just to have the opportunity to achieve it. Sometimes even if someone achieves the American Dream they are always left wanting more, such as companionship and love if they don 't have it.
An example of this is through F. Scott Fitzgeralds “The Great Gatsby”. Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream throughout his novel, “The Great Gatsby”. Jay Gatsby is a very flawed man who believes that money can buy his happiness and win back his long lost love “Daisy”.
An example of this is how Nick …show more content…
On Friday 's boxes of oranges and lemons would come and Jay Gatsby would put them into his expensive juice maker that could juice them very quickly. Caterers would string lights up and cater lots of food to all of Mr. Gatsby 's guests. Guests would appear even if they weren 't invited night from night. This shows that Jay Gatsby was trying to fill his home in order to try to gain happiness from it. Jay Gatsby eventually invites Nick Carraway to one of his parties in which he meets a lot of new people and mingles with them. He eventually wonders off into a library where he meets a strange man who talks about Gatsby 's books. Saying that the books were “absolutely real-have pages and everything. I thought they 'd be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they 're absolutely real. Pages and- Here! Lemme show you.” then he presented a book to Nick and Jordan Baker proving that they were indeed real and didn 't cut any pages. People normally had to cut pages of published books because the pages stuck together at the top so when they read them, they had to cut each page. Throughout the night Nick Carraway heard rumors of Jay Gatsby 's past. Throughout the book Gatsby is very shady he tries to hide his past. Towards the end of the night Gatsby
An example of this is through F. Scott Fitzgeralds “The Great Gatsby”. Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream throughout his novel, “The Great Gatsby”. Jay Gatsby is a very flawed man who believes that money can buy his happiness and win back his long lost love “Daisy”.
An example of this is how Nick …show more content…
On Friday 's boxes of oranges and lemons would come and Jay Gatsby would put them into his expensive juice maker that could juice them very quickly. Caterers would string lights up and cater lots of food to all of Mr. Gatsby 's guests. Guests would appear even if they weren 't invited night from night. This shows that Jay Gatsby was trying to fill his home in order to try to gain happiness from it. Jay Gatsby eventually invites Nick Carraway to one of his parties in which he meets a lot of new people and mingles with them. He eventually wonders off into a library where he meets a strange man who talks about Gatsby 's books. Saying that the books were “absolutely real-have pages and everything. I thought they 'd be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they 're absolutely real. Pages and- Here! Lemme show you.” then he presented a book to Nick and Jordan Baker proving that they were indeed real and didn 't cut any pages. People normally had to cut pages of published books because the pages stuck together at the top so when they read them, they had to cut each page. Throughout the night Nick Carraway heard rumors of Jay Gatsby 's past. Throughout the book Gatsby is very shady he tries to hide his past. Towards the end of the night Gatsby