Gatsby and his American dreamHow does Gatsby represent the American dream?In the fundamental document of the United States society, something so dear to Americans as a symbol of their values ​​of country, the Declaration of Independence, states that all men have the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This has always been dear to all of American society, even if the simple dream of equal opportunities and the possibility of "from rags to riches" is achievable with the strength of a person's character and not with certain privileges that he or she may have had. born with. This radical concept was often difficult to understand and it would appear that it has never truly been displayed in its pure form throughout American history. People have always managed to twist its simple values ​​to suit themselves: discriminating against those who have less than them, or those who are different, Native Americans, blacks. In Fitzgerald's prolific novel, The Great Gatsby, "the dream" and how it became severely distorted in the decadent society of the 1920s is critically examined by the author as he skillfully personifies it in the form of the main character. Gatsby is a man who had the power to achieve anything he dreamed of, and many argue that he wasted this great ability as he seemed to severely confuse the pursuit of happiness, with the pursuit of wealth and position. How he loved a woman for her representation of this world – he sought her out as if she were a prize instead of appreciating her as a person, for all of her unique flaws. "Jay Gatsby" is the name that James Gatz, a working-class boy from the Middle West, used to reinvent himself when he went out into the world in search of fortune, to get somewhere in life. Rig... middle of the paper... his interpretation of The Dream, but it was his dream, and the fact that he had one is a very powerful thing. As Charlene Dawson argued: “The ideal American dream is not that realistic.” Gatsby was not a realist, he was a dreamer, who might have dreamed a dream less worthy than that of a man like Martin Luther King Jr, but it was his dream, and without it he perhaps would never have been called “the Great”. The American Dream may have been born out of a declaration of equality, but it was a call for people to express their individuality by demonstrating what their definition of happiness was. Gatsby embodies the totality of this dream, the hope, the misguided materialism and criminality and in a sense also its failure, for although the Declaration of Independence states that everyone should have the right to pursue happiness, it says absolutely nothing about the achieving it..