How Did Gatsby Achieve The American Dream

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Jay Gatsby works to achieve the American Dream and to relive the past with his lost love. For five years of his life Gatsby worked to be reunited her, however Jay Gatsby never accomplished the American Dream as a result of him never being truly content.
Gatsby’s life persisted around a girl. While others might have seen the wealth, the social status, and the parties, and thought Gatsby had achieved the American Dream, it wasn’t quite his American Dream. His Dream was to go back to the past, when he and Daisy were in love and not separated by social class, and be happy with her. When Daisy’s cousin, Nick sets up a meeting for Gatsby with her, Nick describes Gatsby getting
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When Gatsby invites Daisy to see everything he built for her, Nick says, “He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes” (p. 91). Gatsby had devoted all of his time and money to make Daisy happy, so when he invites her over, Gatsby makes sure to see what she gives a certain level of liking to so she can be happy and relive the past with him, and even earlier, it quotes, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (p. 78). Gatsby needed to be close to her so she could “wander in one night at one of his parties” and see everything he had built for her. With her just across the bay, it made wandering in so much easier. With the goal to relive his past with Daisy, he gingerly made everything foolproof so they could. Securing a certain possibility to fulfill his goals was one of the only things Gatsby did in the whole book. Sure, he had the money, job, and social status, but he was never truly pleased, and lived every moment in an effort to go back to the past, Gatsby was unable to achieve the American