The American Dream has a different perspective to everyone; to me it means a successful struggle. In the book The Great Gatsby it shows how Jay Gatsby has struggled form nothing to something.
Gatsby struggles form being no one to being a well known party host. He's a bootlegger, during the prohibition era in the 1920's. Even though he is not doing the correct thing at that time according to the law, that is his struggle right there. Nohting comes easy in life and sometimes you have to take risks to obtain that certain goal.
One major point is that no matter how wrong it is what Gatsby is doing or how he is a bootlegger, he is happy. Enjoying what you have in life is an important essential to the American Dream. You can reach the highest peak in your life, but if you are not happy it doesn't matter because, you as a being a person, in your inner self you will feel like a failure.
Reaching the American Dream, doesn't always mean having all the materialistic things. Like Gatsby we was happy, but he knew he was still missing that little thing that mattered to him so much...his love, Daisy.
In conclusion the American Dream is just the way someone takes risks and has ambitions to make a better person with him/herself and everyone around them that they care about.
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