The Great Gatspy

The Great Gatsby and the American Dream

Gatsby believed in the green light , the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us . It eluded us then , but that 's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster , stretch out our arms farther And one fine morning - So we beat on , boats against the current , borne back ceaselessly into the past

All of us have dreams , but not all of us have the capacity to turn our dreams into reality . Alexander the Great had a dream to conqueror the world - one which he could

fulfill , and therefore he has come to be known as `the Great . Jay Gatsby , on the other hand , did not have a great and ambitious dream , he was by no means a world conqueror though perhaps he could have been one . His aspirations were much more modest Like a typical enterprising young man of a progressive society , Gatsby simply wanted to become rich and live the good life . He succeeds in achieving his dream at a very young age , rather like Alexander . And again like the great world conqueror , Gatsby too dies young . Since Gatsby achieved his dreams , he too is great in a way . Author F Scott Fitzgerald , however , did not really want to convey the greatness of Gatsby through his novel but the emptiness of pursuing the American dream , especially when the pursuit is carried out by resorting to unfair or illegal means

The stories of both Alexander and Gatsby show the futility of it all...