Dreams Money Can’t Buy

Each new day comes with a new obstacle and new circumstances that we have to learn to face and approach. The variety of situations causes one to dictate the route they will determine to follow in order to achieve their destination. Sometimes the routes people decide to take will guide them to an awful path that can be life threating and may cause them to lose what they love most. In the novel The Great Gatsby, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald gives examples on how a dream can become corrupted by ones focus on acquiring wealth and power. Fitzgerald uses a character, Nick Carraway, to illustrate the sequence of events that make Jay Gatsby’s life miserable through some of the poor choices he made to pursue his dream of conquering Daisy’s love back. Gatsby is a self-made man who is blinded by his motivation to luxurious goods, wealth and power through the love he had towards Daisy. Since the scene of the book takes place in the early 1920’s the demand for Gatsby to achieve his goal was highly needed. Daisy came from a powerful and wealthy family, and during the 1920’s it was only right that wealthy families came together and poor families stayed together. The Great Gatsby gives examples of series of events that can be explained by Lauren Slater’s chapter “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Darley and Latane’s Training Manual- A Five Stage Approach” from her book Opening Skinner’s Box and by Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit. The three readings have similarities within their explained actions that are disputable on how people can change due to the different types of environments they are facing and how their attitudes towards the conflict will vary on how they intend to act towards it.

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...s loved. Although this bad habit can’t be forgotten it can be restructured by switching up the routine into something he that doesn’t harm his relationship. The reason why Tom cheats on his wife is because he really doesn’t like her but ironically is jealous when daisy starts to leave the house suspiciously to go see Gatsby.

Finally, Gatsby is a very appealing character because he has a lot of style and he is driven by this dream of being upper class that he becomes a millionaire and has this remarkable life style but he can’t get Daisy and he dies trying to get her back. Gatsby’s problem is that it’s not enough for him to be rich now he doesn’t care about the parties or the life style. He needs to reach back into this past and start a life with daisy when they were both innocent that was the moment when he needed to be a rich kid but he can’t change the past.