The American Dream is defined as an American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire, and that everyone in the United States has the chance to achievesuccess and prosperity. Gatsby’s dream was to be with Daisy and to do this he knew he had to impress her materialistically. Daisy is a material-girl, who was with Jay Gatsby before the war, however during the war she married to a wealthy man whose wealth is “old money”. Old money is the term, that is used to describe the inherited wealth of established upper-class families. Gatsby makes his money through the underworld andhis dealings with Meyer Wolfshiem. His fortune symbolizes the rise of organized crime and bootlegging. Gatsby rose from an impoverish childhood in rural North Dakota to become wealthy. Asa youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication. 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. His dream of her disintegrates, revealing the corruption that wealth causes and the unworthiness of the goal, this is representative of the American dream crumbling in the 1920s, as America’s powerful optimism, vitality and individualism become subordinated to the amoral pursuit of wealth.
It can be seen that Gatsby goes to great lengths to get Daisy. Gatsby becomes a…