C.+Gatsby+Essay

//The Great Gastby// by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows many different views about the American Dream, and the article “What happens to the American Dream in a Recession?” by Katharine Q. Seelye also shows similar Dreams to //The Great Gatsby//. “Someone could start from nothing” (American Dream in a recession) has a great deal to do with Gatsby because he did start off poor and then became rich. Myer Wolfsheim made Gatsby into what we know him as. He claimed it himself “I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter” (Fitzgerald 171).

Gatsby was poor but became rich right out of nowhere.”He rose up to his position in the East” (Mr. Gatz 168) proves that he became rich instantly. Gatsby was the son of a poor man and because he was poor he could not get the things he wanted like Daisy. “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (Nick 98) this shows that he wanted to be unrelated and have no connection to his parents so he changed his entire name. Many people gossiped about Gatsby but none of them new the truth about him. Gatsby appeared out of nowhere without even a rumor to his name.