The Great Gatsby a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a great example of the “American Dream”. The American dream is a greatly misunderstood in my opinion. Yes the American dream is to do well in life whether it is physical, mentally socially or even in the typical economic form but it is all in a destructive form.
The reason I say that the Great Gatsby is a good example is that it does express the destructive form. Gatsby also illustrates another key factor to the American dream and it is that he reinvented himself. He turned himself from a poor army boy to a rich businessman. He went as far as to change his name so that he could change as much possible of himself.
The destructiveness of Gatsby is that the only thing he wanted was Daisy but the only was he was able to get to Daisy was by becoming rich any way possible, which was his strong connections with Meyer Wolfsheim in his strongly suggested illegal practices. Another great example of the destructiveness of the book is the way Daisy and Ton exploited everyone they meet and without regards could at any one moment throw them away as if they were trash and go on living their lives. Tom exploited Daisy and Myrtle. Myrtle cheated on George. Daisy too was having and affair with Gatsby. And lastly Nick who was is suppose to be the innocent one was looking for a reason to leave his girl back home (even if it was a ridiculous reason) to get together with the pretty tennis player Jordon.
All this together is why I believe that American dream is to become what you want at any ones expense which is clearly illustrated by this book.
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