C.+Gatsby+Essay

 // The Great Gatsby //by F.Scott and “What happens to the American dream in a recession” by Katharine Q. Seelye, have some of the same views on the American Dream. This ting that they both have in common is that someone should not focus their dream on material things, but instead dreams that can make one’s life better.  In // The Great Gatsby //, Mr.Gatz says “Jimmy was bound to get ahead…… Do you notice what he’s got about improving himself” (Fitzgerald 173).Gatsby’s American Dream started out with improving himself. Such as, when he was little he had nothing, but now since his dream to improve himself, he has everything. Just like in the article “What happens to the American dream in the recession” James Truslow Adams made a good point by writing “the American dream… is not a dream of motor cars and high wages, but as they are of social order in which man and each women shall be able to attain the fullest [limit] of which they are [humanly] capable” (Seelye 3). He is saying that no one should just wish for material things, but wish that they can better themselves. Just as in // The Great Gatsby // one will get farther in life dreaming to better themselves, then dreaming for material things.

 Both the novel and the article believe in the same American dream. If someone dreams for material things, then that someone’s American dream might not come true.