However Gatsby always wanted to be a rich man, it's just he became more motivated in acquiring his fortune for his love Daisy. Therefore his dream cannot be souly based on Daisy, as Daisy was only his motivation. Gatsby is introduced into the novel later, and is spoken and gossiped about earlier on in the novel, this makes him seem more of a mystery. As Gatsby is presented, he is reveal to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invest Daisy with idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations.
Is America better than all of the other countries in this world because we offer more opportunity and hope for humanity? Are our constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom giving us a top seat to other cultures and nations that share this earth with us? A lot of Americans would like to think so. We live in a country that is arguably one of the best and most free nations not only personally, but also politically. We are governed by public and private interests.
The novel The Great Gatsby demonstrates the wrong idea people in the 1920s had on the American Dream. The original idea of the American Dream is that each individual can get success and happiness through hard work and determination. However, after WW1 this perception has changed and people started viewing the American Dream only as something materialistic, they only striven for financial success and high social status. Fitzgerald portrays this vision of America through the characters in his novel. Firstly, he shows it through Nick.
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Isn’t today’s “American Dream” to also be comfortable with elaborate and fancy material possessions? Both decades had many concepts and techniques towards accomplishing their dream, but they were both aiming for the same goal: to live the high life prosperously. In the 1980s the incomes for many middle-class people stayed stagnant, but high prices began to rise. This affected families financially. Wealthier families could afford to pay the rising prices, but the middle-class society started to have problems with ascending rates.
Unfortunately, his preoccupation with the superficial qualities of attractiveness and popularity is at odds with a more realistic and rewarding perception of the “American Dream,” and this identifies that hard work without complaints is the key to success. Willy’s superficial and shallow judgment of likability is one the main causes for his blind faith in the “American Dream.” As we read the novel, we notice that Willy has a childish dislike for a young man named Bernard because he appears as nerdy and personally unattractive. However, Bernard ends up being a very successful lawyer, proving that it is neither looks nor popularity that will get you farther in life. Willy’s blind faith in the “American Dream” leads to his downfall as he realizes more and more that his own life and the dream are very distinct from one another. It’s definitely, and unfortunately, very common for people today to have the same perception of the “American Dream” that Willy Loman does.
In his books he wrote “property” instead of “happiness”, until Thomas Jefferson replaced property with happiness, because happiness is a more general pursuit then property is. I would say that the american dream is to an extent, the same as the pursuit of happiness. Because it’s all about improving the quality of life. However it can only be achieved through hard work and dedication, like Chris Gardner in the movie. As an individual you can feel that you deserve success in life as much as you want, but if you are not willing to work for it, you will never achieve it.
And by god I was rich.’ Whenever Ben says that Willy gets motivated to work harder and he interprets Ben's good fortune as undeniable proof that his dreams of making it big are realistic. Ben is the fuel to Willy’s ultimate dream of success. Whenever Ben was around he would constantly remind Willy of how important he is, he may not do it on purpose but he has the tendency to remind Willy how wealth and success runs in the family, ‘’Great inventor, father. With one gadget he made more in a week than a man like you could make in a lifetime’’ And that just makes Willy feel as if he will never be good enough and as important as his brother or father, which demotivates him. Willy sees Ben frequently after he died.
Edward L. Hudgins’ offers a great starting place. In his article What Is an American? Hudgins writes, “An American is anyone who loves life enough to want the best that it has to offer. Americans are not automatically satisfied with their current situation. My grand pop wanted to be more than a poor, landless tenant farmer, no better off than his ancestors.
They need money to pay for taxes but most importantly, to an American, expensive materials with the most exclusive name brands. The typical American is very materialistic who enjoys the finer things. Americans are heavily focused on the media and how the celebrities on television live their lives and dream to live theirs the same exact way which can somewhat be impossible. Watching how celebrities on television live their lives can be a cause of materialism. Americans who have the finer things talk down on the average American who just works for a living everyday which causes the average American to feel like they can’t do something just because of what someone with more money says they shouldn’t do.