The American Dream Does Not Come True In The Great Gatsby

The “American Dream” is a complicated decision on whether it is better for someone to be happy in pursuing their dreams or if they fulfill their dreams and realize that their dreams are not as perfect as they seemed when one was chasing them. In the novel named, “The Great
Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a highly specific portrait of American society during the twenties and is perhaps as old as America itself: a man reaches his way from rags to riches, only to find that his wealth cannot afford him the privileges enjoyed by those born into the upper class. Fitzgerald stops Gatsby from having his dream come true because this would interpret that money cannot buy happiness, seeming is better than being, and that he cannot always expect someone to choose you when

Chapter eight states, “His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes” (Fitzgerald 154). Gatsby does not strive to become wealthy because of greed, he strives to become wealthy for the sake of winning Daisy back, money only matters to Gatsby because he thinks it will help him win Daisy back. An easy one-liner about money not buying happiness does not apply to Gatsby, Daisy will bring happiness to Gatsby, nothing else, so his huge house and wealthy furniture is valueless to him.
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At the end of the novel, Nick sits on the shoreline, reflecting on Gatsby’s life, “He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night” (Fitzgerald, 149). Nick speaks admiringly of Gatsby’s pursuit for money, of which Gatsby left his happiness in North Dakota, in pursuit of wealth. Nick is analyzing that once Gatsby became wealthy, he no longer has pure happiness