C.+Gatsby+Essay

The thought of reaching one’s American Dream is a thought that has been contradicted by many. This article states that one can reach his/her American Dream. With a little hard work and perseverance it will come true in time. A different view is given in the novel, however. The novel hinted that no matter how much you want something and no matter how hard you work for something, it just cannot come true. “44 percent of people that have said they actually achieve the American Dream,” (Seeyle 1). The article shows that a small amount of people have not achieved the “Dream” and that they have given up. The thin is that no one knows how hard those people actually worked at trying to obtain it. One person even went as far as to quote “To become whatever I want to be” (Seeyle 2). If every American Dream was as broad as that, then no wonder people are achieving the American Dream. That quote is stating that if one’s Dream was to be living on the street, then once that person has succeeded, he/she has achieved an American Dream. In the novel, the American Dream ends up being unachievable and untouchable. At the end of the novel, the narrator states, “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night” (Fitzgerald 180). That quote contradicts the article completely. It is basically stating that no matter how hard or close the Dream is, it will not matter. It will end up resulting in the Dream either too far behind or too far ahead to reach. So which one is true is a mystery to most. The broader the Dream, the easier it will be to see. However, not every dream can be transparent.