The Great Gatsby American Dream Wealth, material possessions, and power are the core principles of The American Dream. Pursuit of a better life led countless numbers of foreign immigrants to America desiring their chance at the vast opportunity. Reaching the American Dream is not always reaching true happiness. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby achieves the American Dream, but his unrealistic faiths in money and life’s possibilities twist his dreams …showed first 75 words of 949 total…

…showed last 75 words of 949 total…Reality cannot keep up with its ideals, because in many cases the ideals are usually too fantastic to be realized. Gatsby is the epitome of someone buying happiness and become something that they are not. No outside influence can make a person truly happy, as Lyndon Johnson said, “…Our great cities and our mighty building will avail us not if we lack the spiritual strength to subdue mere objects to the higher purposes of humanity”.