Examples Of Fitzgerald's Attitude Towards The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald 's attitude towards the American dream is that people never gave up hope and had great determination for achieving that dream. This can be discerned in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald through the character Gatsby. Jay Gatsby’s determination of having everything he desires leads him to have hope for achieving every aspect of the American dream.

Throughout the story the reader can detect that Gatsby’s dream was always to have a better life than he had; he wanted a more luxurious house, a superior job, a higher social status, and a strong love that would last through the ages. His drive for achieving that dream was always inside of him, but his drive was also very much influenced and promoted by his love for someone he meets

It was understandable to those people that Gatsby always wanted more out of life than he had and at any costs, he was going to have his dream and desires come true and just to show how serious he was, he even disregards his parents of not truly being his because they were dirt poor, “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people and his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all”(Fitzgerald 98). Now, even though his father was a poor man and was regarded as someone with not much intelligence, especially to Gatsby, he could even tell that his boy was going to become someone one day. After Gatsby’s death, Mr. Gatz makes a remark that solidifies this idea that Gatsby had an enormous intention to become a man of status,

“Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he 's got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it” (Fitzgerald

Jay Gatsby’s character is a perfect relation to that idea. Gatsby 's determination of having everything he desires leads him to achieve his childhood dreams of becoming a wealthy man of status is directly related to people back in the 1920’s that had determination of becoming someone with superiority and class. Also, Gatsby 's’ hope for achieving every aspect of the American dream by bettering everything in his life leads him to hope for his one true love to be his; which can be related back to the American dream in the 1920’s because many people hoped that by putting forth effort and time, eventually their dream would just magically come true for them. One could say that Gatsby was one of the truly lucky ones because he did end up making almost all aspects of his dream come true. Overall, in the end Gatsby had a better life than he had as a boy; he had a more luxurious house, a superior job, and a higher social status. But unfortunately, even at his death, he never fully obtained that strong love that would last through the