Sebastian Ma Part 2 -- The " Equal " American Dream in the Great Gatsby

    To be honest, in my view, the American dream has never been equal for everyone, past or present. Nowadays, good economic fundamentals and social connections mean you have a higher starting point than others, but this is not too naked relative to the past. In the era of Gatsby, the American Dream is just a silly idea. For the old money, there was no need to have that belief, because they had everything they want as the day they were born. For the new money, it may seem achievable, but it was just a mirage, and when you thought you can catch it right away, you found it's not there, and no matter how hard you tried to get close to it, you couldn't catch it at all. And for the no money... it was just a joke, they worked hard and obeyed the law, hoping that one day God would take care of them until one day the reality destroyed them completely. They believed the old money would pay for their working, and they would have money, happiness and respect. However, the old money only cared about people like them, and the new money pursued their American dream by hook or by crook, so nobody really cared about the no money. Even so, they could only hope that one day those people would show mercy in Great Gatsby.

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    George Wilson is the best representative of the no money. He had worked so hard that one day Tom would help him out of poverty so that he could make his beloved wife Myrtle Wilson live a little better. But the truth is that Tom just wants to have fun with his wife, and other things Tom didn't care about at all. Even more ironically, not only did he fail to realize his American dream little by little with the "help" of Tom, he was also used and abandoned as a tool to murder Gatsby. He eventually killed Gatsby and died at his home. In other words, he was destroyed by the American Dream which he still believed. Just because he was a poor no money, he hadn't had a chance to achieve it since the beginning.

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    In fact, no one in Great Gatsby had ever been able to realize their own American Dream. Because that society was deed, God was gone, no change would occur. Although the society was wrong, what really needed to change was human, because the root of the society is human. If they really wanted to realize their own dream, all of them are necessary to do some change. The old money needed to accept the new money and care for no money. The new money needed to know money isn't everything, for example, Gatsby believed he can change past through money, that's one of the reasons he failed to live up to his American Dream. And the no money needed to understand they can't just wait for someone else to save them, they have to try to take their chances, but only if the old money and the new money had changed.