By Khac Vinh Nguyen (06/26/2017)
Jay Gatsby represents for the ideal of material wealth that every American wants to achieve and pursue. However, to get those things they must work so hard and try to put a lot of efforts to get things done. Gatsby started so poor and due to work hard, he finally got successful and had so many valuable properties. Gatsby demonstrates for the ideal of American dream that everyone could be rich and got what they want if they were willing to be industrious and hard working. However, the ideal of American dream that the author Fitzgerald depicts in the story is conflicted with the reality. Many Americans and Immigrants have come to United States with the hope and dream of being rich and successful in America, they have spent a lot of working hours to save money and make their dreams come true. whereas, they have not achieved their goals or even their income is much lower than before in order to nurture for their daily lives. The author wanted to prove that American dream is not true like people would desire.
As a results, Gatsby went from rags to riches, he achieved what others wanted to be. However, he finally did not reach out the higher social class that he would expect. The phase of "old money and new money" is a very obvious example demonstrating for the imbalance of equality of opportunity between ideal and reality. As a deeper meaning, money is not the king of universe. It is only a way to measure success or society.
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