Gatsby_-_American_Dream

Gatsby - American Dream The “American Dream” is best defined as an ideal lifestyle for anyone. Americans find comfort and warmth in three major prospects of life; money, power, and popularity. These are the three main aspects of the “American Dream”. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the story about Jay Gatsby’s assessment of the American Dream by achieving money, power, and popularity through corrupt and unlawful means. Although Jay Gatsby went about his success through ways that were both illegal and unconstitutional, he still achieved the kind of money one would need to piece together the “American Dream”. Even though Gatsby did manage to accumulate the kind of wealth he has through corrupt ways, it didn’t seem to effect him the least bit throughout the novel. He seems to live a completely carefree lifestyle, as if the weight of his actions are some how justified through his success. Throughout the novel Jay is very frivolous with his money. For example, his extravagant parties with the entertainment, food, and booze that he supplied. To be able to afford the kind of luxuries that Jay has, is definitely a sign that he has the wealth of someone who has gatsby, power, dream, money, kind, american, very, jay, through, popularity, novel, throughout, popular, parties, lifestyle, became, wished, wealth, ways, three, though, success, seem, received, one, never, life, least, larger, knew, illegal, however, himself, gatsby’s, fake, even