american dream

It shows how people can get so caught up in the American dream that it runs their lives. Almost all of the characters in the book at one point in the novel are chasing the dream of financial success. The narrator of the book, Nick Carraway starts out fine but by the end of the book is in search of the dream due to being around so much wealth for so long. Nick is what they call old money in the book and he is surrounded by rich people where he lives, the richest of them all is Jay Gatsby, Nick's next door neighbor. From the beginning Nick is interested in Gatsby's wealth and Gatsby attributes to Nick falling into a search for the American Dream. "Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away"(2). The gorgeous thing about Gatsby in this quote is that according to Nick is that he was able to conquer the American Dream. He came from a poor background and in little time was able to become wealthy and famous for his wealth among the wealthy.
             To Nick it seems as though Gatsby has already reached the American dream. He is financially superior to anyone in the area that he lives in and he is famous in that area. However Gatsby is not finished with his American Dream. His dream has no end because his dream is to be with daisy. The reason that he made all of his money is so that he could turn himself into someone that Daisy would want to have a relationship with. But this is impossible therefore Gatsby's dream is unattainable. .
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