The Failure of Gatsby’s American Dream

The Failure of Gatsbys American Dream In F. Scott Fitzgeralds famous refreshing, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is portrayed as being an admirable, wealthy, kind, and genuinely impressive man. However, that being said, he is overly portrayed as pretentious, deceptive, unlawful, and most importantly to the game, completely insatiable. Even though the novels narrator, Nick Carroutside, heavily sympathizes with Gatsby, he has many reference question flaws that ultimately assure the failure of his dream, and even lead to his ill-timed demise.The first bit from the novel that demonstrates Gatsbys inability to be content, is the point that he is not Jay Gatsby. It is learned about halfway through the novel that Jay Gatsby from California is actually a man names James Gatz, who comes from Chicago. The incident that Gatsby fabricated his past and lives his life under an alias shows that he is futile to be content even with his make origins. To go through the disarray of making up an entire past for himself rather than simply telltale(a) the truth shows that either he was too ashamed to tell of his family for his fiscal background, or as is much likely, he found it to be boring.By very nature, Gatsby craves excitement and disaster. In order to make himself seem more exciting and adventurous, he became Jay Gatsby. After examining that, its surmount to look at Gatsbys chosen vocation. Although Gatsby claims to have his money from being born of a wealthy family from the West, he is later revealed to have earned his money from the embezzled business of manufacturing and selling bootlegged liquor. Seeing Gatsby use criminal means to get through wealth and the American Dream demonstrates how desperately he wants to be interpreted seriously.Using his fake psychea and fool-proof criminal processes to get wealth and hearty status means to him that most certainly, he could not be looked subjugate upon or judged for being born of a lower class family and not ha ving any of his proclaim wealth to speak of. Working in the criminal underground also means, however, that he would make very few social connections, and have few authorized friends, bringing me to my next point. Gatsby desperately longs for in the flesh(predicate) relationships.This is apparent in everything from the way he desperately clings to his love of Daisy to his willingness to entrust Ewing Kilspringer, whom Gatsby barely get laids, to sponge off him and virtually live at his mansion. Since the adventure and excitement of his fake persona and his criminal lifestyle are not enough to satisfy Gatsby, he figures that the nevertheless way to obtain true happiness would be through interactions with throng, who can be around him and unceasingly admire his accomplishments and somehow complete him.However, Gatsby is unable to make social connections because of his own social awkwardness, which as becomes more and more apparent, he compensates for with his wealth and posses sions. The best example of this is Gatsbys parties, in which the guests all have an excellent time, and know of Gatsby, exclusively know almost nothing about him, even to the point where nobody seems to know where he even came from. Gatsbys awkwardness and concern of real people causes him to close himself off even at his own parties, and hope that somehow the good time people have will make them admire him more (which, oddly, seems to work).The desire for intimate personal relationships becomes Gatsbys own version of The American Dream which manifests itself most strongly in his love for Daisy Buchanan. Daisy and Gatsby were briefly lovers before Gatsby was sent off to the First domain War. Having been the last person who Gatsby felt any true emotions toward, Daisy becomes the object of his desire, affections, and now, his talent and will to achieve. Gatsbys dream however is crushed by the credit that Daisy is not the ideal person who he thinks she is.Since Gatsby is a lover o f delusion and exaggeration, he holds all people to an impossible standard of how he thinks people should be, even himself. The real Daisy is almost too shallow to really love, as is most evidenced by the way she is so emotionally travel by some silk shirts that Gatsby has, calling them the most beautiful things she has ever seen. condescension the fact that Daisy is not who Gatsby wants her to be, he clings to her, either realizing his impossible standard, or so far into his delusion that he is unable to see her as anything but ideal despite her major character flaws.Beginning an affair, the two plot to stand up to Daisys abusive husband tom turkey, and run away together. When the plan finally has the chance to come to fruition, however, Daisy is unable to tell Tom that she does not love him. The reason for this is not because Gatsby is undeserving, but because he is so insatiable, and unstoppably ambitious to the point that he doesnt know what he rattling wants, that he is unab le to actually achieve anything that might make a true difference in his life. Tom on the other hand, dapple rude and pushy and genuinely unkind, knows exactly hat he wants and has no problems in simply taking it. After a car split up kills Toms lover, Myrtle, Gatsby attempts one more act of gallantry in order to prove his worth and determination. He takes the blame for Myrtles death in an attempt to save Daisy, who was really to blame. As Gatsby loot to finally take in all that he has accomplished, and finally calculate what he has (symbolized by him finally using his pool) he is murdered by George Wilson, Myrtles husband who then takes his own life.Oddly enough, subsequently Wilsons murder/suicide, the reader is then struck by the collision similarities between Wilson and Gatsby. They two tired of being taken advantage of, they both loved a woman who was not real, and they both longed for true companionship. The only difference is that one of them was able to achieve greatl y on a more worldly level, which despite his large personal shortcomings, made him into that person of his own creation that he had so desperately wanted to be The Great Gatsby.