What Makes Gatsby Perfection

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In the Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald one of the main characters J Gatsby is a very successful person but no one knows where he gets his wealth from. The story is based in the 1920s and the American dream was big back then and everyone wanted to be successful by working because this is the land of opportunity and anything can be achieved if you work hard enough.

The American Dream is the idea that the United States is the land of opportunity and anything can be achieved if you work hard enough to get a job, to earn money doing what you like, and to start and raise a family. In Who Burns for the Perfection or Paper by Martin Espada it says “At sixteen, I worked after high school hours at a printing plant”, “No gloves: fingertips
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This refers to the American dream because the American dream is also about getting a job that you enjoy and that you can make a living off of. Gatsby wanted to be rich and he smuggled in alcohol which made him a lot of money that was his goal when he was growing up to make a lot of money and he achieved that goal by having a job that got him paid well."He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter". Gatsby got his money from bootlegging the American dream is about making money and the opportunity of making money it doesn't matter if you do what's right or wrong if you are doing what you enjoy doing then that's the American dream also because he's getting successful off of bootlegging.

J Gatsby achieved the American dream because he came from nothing and became one of the richest people in New York. Gatsby worked hard at doing what could give him money and he worked hard so he could become rich. The American dream involves working hard to achieve your goal or dream and becoming successful which Gatsby