The Failure of the American Dr

Title: The Failure of the American Dr
Category: Literature / English | Words: 622 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Failure of the American Dr

The Failure of the American Dream In the classic novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan, George Wilson and Jay Gatsby fail to achieve the American Dream. The American Dream is the combination of happiness, love and hard honest work. The above characters try throughout the novel to obtain these characteristics but fail in the end. Tom did not live the American Dream due to many factors. First of all Tom and …showed first 75 words of 622 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 622 total…he inherited his money but in fact he did illegal business to get the money he had. When asked by Nick how he got the money to buy all the things he had, Gatsby replied, “I was in the drug business…” (95) Gatsby admits that he did illegal things to get his money but makes Nick believe that those days are over. As the story goes on we realize that he still does business with bootleggers.

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