The American Dream by definition is the idea that everyone in the United States has the chance to achieve success and prosperity (Encarta). This includes wealth, love, material things, and happiness. Sometimes people take the wrong ways to get these things, even resorting to criminal and illegal activity. Gatsby was no exception. Does Jay Gatsby really achieve the American Dream? If he does, how does he do it?
Jay Gatsby, born James Gatz, was born poor to an unsuccessful farming family in the Midwest. Like most, he sets specific goals and time frames for his goals to make his dreams real. He sets into plan a course of action. Gatsby's dream is easy to see by his fierce and intense ambition. He wants wealth, and most of all, Daisy, the love of his life. Nick describes Gatsby as having "an extraordinary gift for hope", which has never been found in any other person: If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some......
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