The Great Gatsby and The American Dream

The American Dream and the book "The Great Gatsby" have many similarities between them like for example the perfect life that everyone strives for and wants, the idea that you have to be rich to be happy and start your own family. Daisy and Tom Buchanan had it all, they had their own family and were insanely rich with a really nice house so one would consider that they are living to their fullest and are completely fitting into the American Dream. This however isn't true from the side it may seem so yet they were a very unfortunate family due to the lack of love between each other, Tom was cheating on Daisy, Pammy was shy of her mother because she barely ever spends time with her, and Daisy learned how to cope with being alone and emotionless, that is not what people want to happen with their lives. Gatsby had hopes that he will one day achieve the American Dream with Daisy, he already had the money he had a beautiful home all he needed was love. He really wanted to just take Daisy and run away with her to the place they had met and start a family there. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case, Daisy was focused on materialistic values of The Dream rather than the love, she only wanted somebody wealthy because she wanted that support and not worrying about a thing. Gatsby had a different mindset, so that's where it all went downhill, when he met Daisy's daughter Gatsby knew that his dream was crushed and Daisy is going to stay with Tom, after the fatal car accident being very careless Daisy wanted Gatsby to take on the blame so that she would stay out of trouble. So, the American Dream works both ways people either see it in a materialistic or loving way or honestly both yet so many cannot achieve it.