The Great Gatsby Theme Essay

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The movie Legally Blonde depicts that the American dream can become impossible through the character Elle. Elle’s ex-boyfriend leaves her and begins a new life with a new girl at law school. Elle finds herself chasing him by registering at the same school her ex is in. She makes many attempts to impress him and make him jealous, hoping he’ll come running back to her and their relationship will return to how it used to be. Elle comes across another man who treats her well, supports her decisions and hopes for the best for her. Unfortunately Elle does not see this in him because her focus and dream is still her ex-boyfriend. Similarly, in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the American dream becoming impossible is depicted through two characters, Gatsby and Myrtle. Gatsby and Myrtle are both holding on to the dream of being with their lovers and do not update or modify their dreams. The lack of updating their dreams leads to disappointment when their dreams do not come true. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates through the characters Gatsby and Myrtle, that the American dream becomes impossible when the dream becomes unrealistic. Fitzgerald demonstrates the idea of the American dream becoming impossible through the character Gatsby. Gatsby has dreamed of being a couple with Daisy Buchanan again for five years, without ever updating his dream. In chapter 6, Gatsby reveals what he wants from Daisy Buchanan. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’” (Fitzgerald 109). Although it is very unlikely for Daisy to have never loved Tom Buchanan, the narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway goes on to explain how Gatsby literally expected to repeat the past. “—Just as if it were five years ago… ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’” (109-110). At this point, the
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