Failures_Of_The_American_Dream_In_The_Great_Gatsby

Failures Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby “I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” These words of Steven Spielberg echo the idea of the American Dream, where virtues of hard work and ambition can take one anywhere. Generically defined, the American Dream means someone starting low on the economic or social gamut working really hard to turn prosperous or famous. Although such rags-to-riches stories take root in the deepest parts of many of our hearts, we must use reason to realize the inherent illogic behind the American Dream. How many of us can’t dream' How many of us don’t have an ambition' And how many of us don’t work hard' Are we ALL who we want to be right now' No! While chivalrous and quixotic, the pursuers of the Dream usually fail to take into account other factors of society as well as reality that will eventually foil their wishes. That last statement will be considered heretical by many, but there are those who agree; Francis Scott Fitzgerald would be one. In his book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald touches upon the lower parts of the social spectrum, where most of the Dream lives on. During the discussion of the lower dream, american, fitzgerald, gatsby, nick, class, through, yet, shows, upper, reality, because, wilson, life, gatsby’s, daisy, tom, one, out, lower, doesn’t, once, love, failure, upon, something, realizes, pursuers, pursuer, never, great, george, again, after