Luby -The American dream equally available to people

I think people can realize the American dream, which is If people work hard, they can get happiness.The wealth that parents leave to their children will sooner or later be squandered. We can only accompany ourselves forever through the things we get through our own efforts. The money, power and sense of accomplishment we get through our own efforts are real. Many people say that the American dream cannot be realized. Because many people misinterpreted the meaning of the American dream.The rich are a small part of the world. And not everyone's pursuit of happiness is money. What many people get through their efforts is honor. They are remembered by everyone in the world. This is something that money can't bring to people. There are many rich people in the world but they are not all known. But the achievements you get through your own efforts are likely to be remembered.Take Kobe Bryant for example. He likes playing basketball since childhood. He spent approximately 14 hours in training since high school. When he started the professional training, he never stopped until reached 400 shots. Sugar never appeared on his dining table in his professional time. After his constant efforts, he won five NBA championships. This brings him happiness. in this video, his efforts are shown to audience in a realistic way.

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    Everyone have different definition in happiness.So everyone's American Dream is different.So American Dream is not fair,someone's dream will easy to achieve,someone maybe can not reach their dream forever.

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Happiness and success are people get and hold what they really want Everyone can realize their American Dream if they can do anything about it. People need to jump out of the format of the " ideal life " which is other people set to them, and they need to find which is they really want. After they finding out, if it's money, they can get it 

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Part 2 - imbalance American Dream by Leo

American dream, firstly in my view, means a fair society for everyone to pursue both material success and spiritual success through their efforts, no matter what class they were from. However, it has become imbalance. Actually, Americans simply pursue wealth but ignore spiritual developments. Gatsby represents the material dream best in the novel, because he soon became rich though he was from the underclass. Then he moved to a big house and usually holds grand parties with the rich, which is a way to show how successful he becomes. Gatsby’s materially success shows the flourishing aspect of American dream. It seems that everyone has equal opportunities to become wealthy.

When it comes to the spiritual dream, the picture is different. Gatsby’s spiritual dream is an illusion in that society, which causes his inevitable failure. Daisy is not like the kind, pure girl that she used to be. Unfortunately, she becomes selfish after many years’ life. However, the former perfect Daisy in Gatsby’s dream have not existed any more. It is impossible to pursue an inexistent girl. The tragedy is that he devotes everything to his beautiful fantasy, while the fact is opposite. Whatever, Gatsby is still great, because he is still pure and yearns for his beautiful dream, though he is in a superficial society. He represents the initial American Dream both materially and spiritually, while his failed to realize his spiritual dream. Ironically, the pure dreamer finally dies distressingly in the society with ‘American Dream’. Both Daisy’s corruption and Gatsby’s death are caused by the sick society with imbalanced dream.

The material comparisons were ridiculous in that era. The new money looked down upon the poor, while they were looked down upon by the old money. American dream provided more opportunities. But it broke people’s relationship. Everyone became snobbish and money-oriented. For example, Gatsby wrongly thinks that wealth can help him realize everything. In fact, most of the guests including Daisy look down upon Gatsby, because few people would respect a new rich. They make fun of Gatsby in the parties and just think the parties of free entertainment places. Even in Gatsby’s funeral, few of them come. All of above shows the imbalance between material and spirit in American dream, which made the dream finally corrupted. As a result, Americans became fond of hedonism and ignored their spiritual developments then.

 According to my Part 1, the way Americans consider the American dream is becoming more and more realistic and material. Americans simply link the dream to wealth, so they can never realize how significant diversity is for America. The old money can represent the local whites, and the new money can represent people from other races or other countries. Most whites don’t want to separate their cake and become selfish and ignorance. They don’t know the reason why American is great is its diversity and refuse to be kind. It is the conflicts between material and spirit, which was originally caused by the imbalance American Dream.

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 American Dream mentioned the idea that everyone has the same opportunity to be successful However, In the roaring nineteen twenties, the huge gap between the rich and the poor made life very difficult for the people of the lower classes. They do not have unlimited resources and opportunities as the upper classes do. They are not recognized, they have only one label-the poor. However, this loss of personal identity, so that people do not know for them what success is. So the American dream is just a dream for them, and the purpose of their life is to survive

In the great Gatsby novel, Mr. George Wilson is a representative of people who loss their individual identity. As a man, he didn't have all the character that a man had at that time. Also in the family he also seems to be the weak one. In Chapter 7 of the novel , the author writes “ He was his wife's man and not his own.” (7) From this we can see that the American dream does not belong to Wilson, because he is not George Wilson, he is Myrtle's husband. So he can never achieve the American dream because he does not have the personal identity. George Wilson represented the lower class in the American society at that time. They lacked their personal identity. They don't know who they are and what success means., they only worked for survival.    So the American dream does not belong to the lower class.I think the tragic story of George shows the essence of the American dream, that is, the American dream belongs to upper class, the upper class people have unlimited resources and opportunities and they have no shortage of individual identity , but for those of the lower class, the American dream is only a kind of extravagant hope.

I think society should change. The first step is to prevent the continuation of discrimination from an educational point of view. America's deep-rooted class discrimination has something to do with its history of colonization, so educational change is necessary. Second, Adopt corresponding economic policies to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor. Third, tell people the importance of individual identity through the media.

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       The American Dream is said too idealized and has been shattered long ago. The American Dream be mentioned is if people work hard, then they would achieve what they want. It means this American Dream can drive people to try their best and achieve something. However, they cannot achieve everything.

In The Great Gatsby, many people in west egg work hard every day. Some of them succeeded and got a lot of wealth, but they somehow feel empty. Every weekend, they participate in Gatsby’s party, which full of alcohol and carnival. It is strange because If they achieved what they really want, they would not need alcohol and carnival to make them happy. In fact, they have not achieved their American Dream. They gave everything to work, but in the end, they chose to drink alcohol to anesthetize themselves. It is ironic because they have not achieved what they really want and pretend they got it.

       Gatsby achieved wealth after several years of hard work. However, his American Dream is obtaining Daisy. He did lots of things for achieving this dream, such as attended war, made his business successful, and cost several years to build a castle for attracting Daisy. He wants to use his wealth, which is got by his hard-working, to change Daisy’s mind. He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” (6.117)

He wanted to refresh Daisy’s thought of her husband like applying a new layer of paint to the walls even she has married Tom several years. It is absurd and unrealistic because the relationship could not be disappeared by his money. “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” (6.117) He thinks that he can use his achievement which from his hard-working to buy the past time and repeat it because the American Dream told him that he can achieve whatever he wants after he worked hard. However, it obviously cannot change the time by money.

These two cases reflect the American Dream cannot be achieved indirectly. Gatsby believed American Dream and implemented it, but he eventually cannot get Daisy. It shows that American Dream is just a lie, and Gatsby is one of the victims of American Dream. On the other hand, Tom gets Daisy easily, who has lots of wealth when he was born. This further proves that the American Dream is false. As a result, Gatsby’s American Dream is empty because whatever he wants to get and change is impossible. It also shows that the American dream has been destroyed.

       Not only in the novel, the process of Gatsby wants to get Daisy and Tom got Daisy can present the American Dream is not true. But also, this false is reflected in the current society. Furthermore, this unequal problem originated from the American Dream is also divided into more parts, such as gender and ethnicity discrimination. And American Dream is also more like a lie than before.

Reference:

1.     “Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby.” DeviantArt, lap12.deviantart.com/art/Daisy-Buchanan-from-The-Great-Gatsby-374022766.

2.     Fitzgerald, F.Scott. The Great Gatsby. Penguin Books, 1950.