People always try to get rich, and they always look for a way to become successful. The American Dream is a belief that everyone in America can become successful through hard work and some luck. In the book The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the book, writes the opposite view of the American dream and make characters face unfortunate events and fail to attain their dreams. All the characters focused too much on achieving their dream and do whatever it takes to do so. However, because of this, they become so absorbed by their dream that they begin to destroy others’ dreams, and all of them fail to attain their dream eventually.
Gatsby, the mysterious character of the novel, is a pure man who has loved Daisy Buchanan. He always dreams to fall in love with Daisy like they used to in Louisville. He loses her after he goes to the WWI. After he comes back from the WWI, he does so many things to get Daisy’s love again though she is married to Tom Buchanan. For example, he begins bootlegging. With his fortune from bootlegging, he buys a house right across the bay, and throws elaborate parties every weekend, waiting for Daisy to come and looking to impress her. Gatsby believes that he can make Daisy fall in love with him again and he wants everything to be same as the past. When Nick, the narrator of the story, says he wants too much from Daisy and cannot repeat the past, Gatsby says, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can! I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before. She’ll see (110).” Gatsby is so absorbed in Daisy that he does not accept any negative facts that oppose his dream. Therefore, Gatsby dislikes Tom who is Daisy’s husband, and he tries to get Daisy and Tom away from each other. At the Plaza Hotel, Gatsby tells Tom that he and Daisy have loved each other for 5 years and she is leaving Tom. However, when Gatsby tries to get Daisy to say she never loved Tom, she says “Oh, you want too much! I love you now- isn’t it...