How Does Fitzgerald Present The American Dream In The...

The American dream is a privilege given to the citizens in this country, which states that regardless of your social standing, any person can achieve their goals with their own ambition. The American dream is a “recurring theme in American society”. However, in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s it presents the American dream as an illusion which can never be achieved no matter how hard they yearn for it; and per recent events in America, Fitzgerald is evidently correct. The illustration of Daisy as the American Dream, the issue of meritocracy, Myrtle’s death, the image of the green light, as well as the way Gatsby was restricted access to the elite class, all represent the chase of the American Dream. This delusion of the American Dream …show more content…
Myrtle Wilson is one of Tom Buchanan’s mistresses, a non-elitist woman aspiring to become more than simply Tom’s mistress (absolute phrase). She desires to become Tom’s lover. When Daisy runs “this woman (Myrtle)” over with Gatsby’s car because Myrtle “rushed out at us just as [Daisy was] passing a car coming the other way” (143). This incident symbolizes how the upper class persistently destroys the dreams and hopes of the aspiring middle class to take their place in the elite class. When Daisy runs over Myrtle, Daisy’s first matter of concern is herself and whether she will be able to avoid the consequences, and not whether Myrtle is okay. Myrtle clearly desired Tom; however, she couldn’t have him because Tom is with Daisy. She’ll always be Tom’s mistress, and never anything more because of Daisy’s recklessness. After this incident, George Wilson goes out to kill Gatsby, as his pool is tainted with a “red circle”(162), and he is successful in his mission; however he dies in the process. When Daisy runs over Myrtle, she caused the deaths of Myrtle, Gatsby, and George, which universally resemble the manner in which the upper class’s recklessness leads to the inevitable death of the aspirations of the middle …show more content…
He reinvents himself into Jay Gatsby and consistently hosts parties in order to be accepted into the elite class. However, “people were not invited—they went there”(41), yet they still gossiped about how “he killed a man” and that “he was a German Spy during the war”(44). Gatsby persistently attempts to gain acceptance into the elite class; however, the elitists simply use him for their own fun during the parties and gossip about him for their own amusement, reflecting on how they’re not allowing Gatsby to join their social class (participial

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How Does Fitzgerald Present The American Dream In The Great Gatsby