More American Dream

This week in class was a strange one. We discovered many new things in our piece of literature, "The Great Gatsby". Not only did we elaborate on the ideology of the book itself, but we more closely looked at the fiction choice and the connections to the American Dream. Looking at the dream from an outside perspective, the dream itself includes happiness, prosperity, and great health. After close reading chapter 5 from "The Great Gatsby", pulling an article on the economy of America, and an article called "Serving in Florida", I came to a conclusion. I realized that the American Dream is not one uniform dream, it changes and molds to fit everyone's desire. 

In our book, one of the main characters Daisy is said to be living the American dream. She is married to Tom, therefore giving her a family; Tom is a wealthy man, which gives her all the prosperity that she wants, but sadly she is not happy. She meets Gatsby and realizes that she is not content with her life with Tom,  and will always be wanting more from him. She has two out of the three parts I mentioned above, and for her to obtain the full dream, either a change in lifestyle or a divorce is necessary. My article directly corresponded to not having all three parts of the dream. The article emphasized the lack of the flu shot which is causing people to get sick and deteriorate their health. People are always looking for money, and for happiness, but without good health, no life is possible and the dream is worthless. Lastly, looking at my chosen article, the author of the piece has great health, and happiness, but lacks money, therefore stopping her from obtaining the full dream. The American Dream molds to fit everyone's needs and changes when looking at other perspectives.