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Roberto Rivera 1B // The Great Gatsby // shows the American Dream of being rich and owning lavish items. In the article, the American Dream is to be rich and successful. Some would argue that it is, “working a secure job, being able to have a home and live as happily as you can, not spending too much money” (Seelya 2). // The Great Gatsby // has people who think they have achieved the American Dream, but have it taken away. Not all American Dreams are the same. Gatsby’s American Dream was to have the life he had with Daisy again. “He (Gatsby) 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” (Fitzgerald 189). Gatsby had thought he had reached hi dream when it was shattered by reality. The article states that a person can do anything if they work hard. If that were true then either Gatsby did not work hard enough or hard work could not make dreams come true. Gatsby had thrown huge parties in hopes to impress a married woman into leaving her husband. If he had stopped to think about what he was trying to do he might have known that it had some failure in it. The article reads, “The percentage of people who say the American Dream does not exist or is an illusion has remained low-3 percent today and two percent four years ago”(Seelya 3).Gatsby’s dream ended in Failure, but that does not mean no dream cannot. Everyone has different dreams big or small.